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Tra connoisseurship e militanza culturale: Pietro Selvatico e Ernst Förster nell'oratorio di San Giorgio (1837-1846)
2020
The Nineteenth-Century rediscovery of the Oratory of S. Giorgio offers the opportunity to question the conservation methods, historical analysis and creative reception of fourteenth-century painting in this crucial period for the establishment of art history as a scientific discipline. This essay reconstructs the historical circumstances of the discovery of Altichiero’s frescoes and the consequent discussions among connoisseurs concerning the autography and the cultural value of these paintings. The protagonists of this scholarly discussion – the German art historian Ernst Förster (1800-1885) and his Italian colleague Pietro Selvatico Estense (1803- 1880) – see the Paduan fresco cycle as a …
Stil/stylus: Rumohrs Versuch einer Neuprägung des Stilbegriffs und die Flucht in die Kulturgeschichte
2013
This article investigates Carl Friedrich von Rumohr's art historical method and the ambivalent use of the term «style» by the German author.
Il cammino a ritroso: Schorn, Creuzer e il significato della scultura nel «Kunst-Blatt»
2012
The article investigates the reception of Creuzer's crucial text «Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen» by the editor of the German art review «Kunst-Blatt».
Voix hors champ: Stendhal historien de l'art contemporain dans l'Histoire de la peinture en Italie (1817)
2012
This article investigates Stendhal's ideas on contemporary French art as they shine through his «Histoire de la peinture en Italie» (1817) and the novel «La chartreuse de Parme» (1839).
Edizioni, traduzioni e censure: Cicognara, i fratelli Giachetti e l’editoria artistica di inizio Ottocento
2018
This article focuses on Leopoldo Cicognara's role as an advisor of the Italian publisher Giachetti (Prato). After a brief analysis of three key publications (Cicognara's history of sculpture; Séroux d'Agincourt's history of medieval and early-modern Art; Winckelmann's history of ancient art), the authors discuss the role of censorship and its consequences for nineteenth-century art books. The documentary appendix includes a complete transcription of all reports by the Florentine censor p. Mauro Bernardini.
«[…] tanta potenza di critica e tanta solida dottrina archeologica»: Pietro Selvatico, Santo Varni e l’erudizione artistica agli albori dell’Unità d’…
2018
Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi sulla personalità multiforme di Santo Varni (1807-85), fin qui conosciuto soprattutto come scultore, di cui vengono indagati i suoi molteplici altri interessi: dall’archeologia alla storia dell’arte, dal collezionismo al restauro. Le sue tante atti-vità lo hanno condotto a studiare, oltre che la sua città, Genova, il Basso Piemonte, Savona, la Lomellina, il Tigullio e la Versilia. A partire da un fondo archivistico di Santo Varni inedito e da alcune opere rintracciate per l’occasione, il volume ricostruisce gli studi e le scoperte ef-fettuate dallo scultore, ricollegandole ai materiali superstiti, oggi dispersi nei musei di tutto il mondo (da quel…
«Die grosse Einheit der Kunst»: Rudolf von Eitelbergers Vorlesungen über Theorie und Geschichte der bildenden Künste und die Quellen seines kunsttheo…
2019
The essay deals with Rudolf Eitelberger's lecture series on the theory of the fine arts in the context of contemporary aesthetic and art-theoretical conceptions. Particular attention is paid to the works of Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, Otfried Müller, Franz Ficker and Franz Kugler, whose significance in Viennese art life is examined in detail. The appendix contains a critical edition of Eitelberger's lecture manuscript (Wien, Wienbibliothek im Rathaus).