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Bello e Idea nell’estetica del Seicento
2007
The Beautiful and The Idea in 17th-Century Aesthetics In his renowned lecture on the Idea, which he delivered at the Academy of Saint Luke in 1664, Giovan Pietro Bellori asserts the superiority of ideal beauty against the slavish imitation of reality and the unbridled freedom of the imagination. However, an equally important, albeit lesser known, contributor to the formulation of this classicist aesthetic theory is Giovan Battista Agucchi, author of a Treatise on Painting that appeared in fragmentary form in 1646. In this work, Agucchi identifes beauty as the truest and highest aim of painting; he attributes to the artist the power to contemplate the Idea, and confers a profound cognitive v…
Balconi, veli e schermi. Come il panorama contemporaneo affonda il paesaggio antico
2021
The article puts in a sequence the ideas of wall, picture, frame, window, veil, screen and balcony in order to describe the process of "close range" spectacularisation whereby the gaze gives up the ancient landscape because it loves too much the modernity of "panorama".
The Visual Experience of Triumphant Church. The Mosaic of S. Maria in Trastevere
2021
Stage Theory and Proper Names
2011
In the contemporary debate about the nature of persistence, stage theory is the view that ordinary objects (artefacts, animals, persons, etc.) are instantaneous and"persist" by being suitably related to other instantaneous objects (see T. Sider 1996, 2001 and K. Hawley 2001, both defenders of the view). In this paper I focus on the issue of what stage theorists should say about the semantics of ordinary proper names, like"Socrates" or"London". This is how I will proceed: after discussing the general features of stage theory (section 1), I will consider the remarks that stage theorists actually make about the semantics of proper names (section 2). I will then point to some hitherto unnoticed…
«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).
Bossi e la «lega settentrionale»: un dialogo con Carstens e Fernow
2004
Le soglie e i custodi delle arti. Una nota introduttiva
2016
Introduction to the special issue devoted to philosophy and art theory of the art system.