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Emily Nevill Jackson e le Arti Decorative in Sicilia
2022
Through the study of sources and their contextualisation with the panorama of artistic literature of the time, the article aims to present the figure of Emily Nevill Jackson, an English scholar of the Decorative Arts active in London between the end of the 19th century and the first thirty years of the 20th century. Jackson can be counted among the many women scholars who published in the main periodicals of the sector during that period, contributing to a comprehensive representation of the international reality related to the specific sector of Decorative Arts, in the wake of the influence of Ruskin and Morris’ thought. Jackson, in particular, in the final part of her career made a trip t…
Sicily's Prime - Il viaggio nelle Arti Decorative siciliane di Emily Nevill Jackson
2022
“A student in Sicily” by Emily Nevill Jackson, published in 1926, represents the first real general survey of Sicilian Decorative Arts. In it, the author describes in detail works, typologies, materials, techniques and collections with a meticulousness and precision that would only be fully reflected and scientifically formulated in later studies. After reconstructing the figure of the scholar, the book examines Jackson's text on the works of Decorative Arts, contextualising it with the most recent scientific studies on the works themselves.
Gioielli siciliani nelle testimonianze dei viaggiatori inglesi in Sicilia tra XVIII e XIX secolo
2020
The attention that is dedicated to the Decorative Arts in the travelers' diaries is much inferior in comparison to that one turned to the archaeology, to the painting or to the sculpture. As far as jewelry is concerned, in particular, the growing admiration for the craftsman's mastery was flanked by the traditional consideration of its splendor as a status symbol and the ancestral conception of precious stones as bearers of particular magical or apotropaic powers. It is, however, natural that the quotations of jewels in the diaries of the Grand Tour are in small numbers compared, for example, to those relating to archaeological ruins, and their collection is the result of targeted research …
Le miracle de la nature et de l’art - Palermo barocca nel diario di viaggio di Albert Jouvin de Rochefort
2019
The date of Albert Jouvin de Rochefort’s journey, recounted in his Voyage d’Italie et de Malthe, in 1672, places him among the authors who were at the forefront of the Grand Tour phenomenon, which experienced its golden age between the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the following century. Palermo was the first stop on his journey to Sicily and Jouvin was fascinated by it. The closeness of the author to the baroque aesthetic is widely reflected in Palermo not only in the main monuments of the city, but in the entire urban layout, conceived as a Theatre of the World, in which coexist, in a multitude of monumental and decorative solutions, the fundamental social and cult…
L’ostensorio in corallo del monastero del SS. Salvatore di Palermo
2019
The essay deals with the coral monstrance of the monastery of SS. Salvatore in Palermo, framing it from the historical, historical-artistic and cultural point of view and reconstructing the history of its musealization and the monastery of origin.
Renato Guttuso e il ciclo pittorico per la Chiesa di Maria Santissima Addolorata ad Aspra
2021
Il contributo si focalizza sul ciclo pittorico realizzato da Renato Guttuso tra il 1929 e il 1930 negli interni della Chiesa di Maria Santissima Addolorata ad Aspra, borgata marinara poco distante da Bagheria. Questo intervento decorativo, censurato e a lungo dimenticato, infatti ha contribuito significativamente all’originale prospettiva dell’artista sui temi del sacro e ha avuto altresì il merito di inaugurare un filone della sua ricerca particolarmente fertile. The contribution focuses on the pictorial cycle created by Renato Guttuso between 1929 and 1930 in the interior of the Church of Maria Santissima Addolorata in Aspra, a seaside village not far from Bagheria. This decorative interv…
San Francesco di Paola nelle arti decorative in Sicilia
2019
Partendo dall’antica devozione nei confronti di San Francesco di Paola in Sicilia si analizzano le più significative opere d’arte decorativa dedicate al Santo Fondatore dell’Ordine dei Minimi. Dai busti o gruppi in terracotta, come quello della fine del XVI secolo attribuito a Vincenzo Gagini della chiesa palermitana a lui dedicata, alle sculture lignee, alle più rare e preziose opere di oreficeria o ornate con corallo. Starting from the ancient devotion to St. Francis of Paola in Sicily we analyze the most significant works of decorative art dedicated to the Holy Founder of the Order of Minims. From the busts or groups in terracotta, such as that of the late sixteenth century attributed to…
Santa Lucia Patrona di Siracusa: il suo simulacro, la sua ‘vara’, il suo tesoro
2020
The treasure of Saint Lucia in Syracuse is not only a collection of works of art of inestimable value, but it testifies a complex interweaving of social, religious and art-historical aspects closely connected to the culture and identity of the whole Sicily. The essay, on the basis of the latest documentary studies and of the data relating to the recent restoration, updates the scientific research on the simulacrum, the vara and the treasure of precious jewels donated ex voto to Saint Lucia, examining the figures of silversmiths and goldsmiths linked to their creation and retracing the events through the inventories and the historical testimonies, with reference to the art-historical context…
Arti decorative all’Esposizione Ibero-Americana del 1929 a Siviglia
2014
The Ibero-American exhibition that took place from 9 May 1929 to 21 June 1930 in Seville was a cultural and historical event that allowed the exhibition of the most significant artistic artefacts present in Spain, including an important exhibition of decorative art.
La connessione Malta, Sicilia e Napoli nell'oreficeria del XVII e del XVIII secolo: Giovanni Tommaso de Mare e Francesco Vidall
2017
Il saggio studia le relazioni artistico-culturali tra Sicilia, Malta e Napoli nel campo dell'oreficeria d'epoca moderna. In questo contesto emergono le figure ancora poco conosciute degli orafi Giovanni Tommaso de Mare e Francesco Vidall. The essay deals with the artistic-cultural relationships between Sicily, Malta and Naples in the field of modern jewelery. In this context the still little known figures of the goldsmiths Giovanni Tommaso de Mare and Francesco Vidall emerge.