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Renato Guttuso and Sicily. For awidespread museum of the master of Bagheria
2021
Il contributo propone un approfondimento sulla figura di Renato Guttuso, artista siciliano che occupa un posto di rilievo nel panorama della pittura europea del XX secolo, attraverso ladisamina delle sue opere presenti in Sicilia,svolta alla luce dei più aggiornati studi sul legame dell’artista con la sua terra d’origine. Oltre al Museo Guttuso, fondato a Bagheria grazie a un lascito dell’artista, e al Complesso Monumentale dello Steridi Palermo, dove recentemente il suo capolavoro internazionalmente noto La Vucciriaè stato oggetto di un nuovo allestimento, si contano numerose sul territori siciliano le testimonianze della sua ricerca multiforme, grazie alla presenza di diverse realtà istit…
Un'aggiunta al catalogo delle opere in argento di Filippo Juvarra
2007
Si studia l'inedito Crocifisso d'argento di collezione privata palermitana. La presenza del punzone FL.IV porta ad ascrivere il manufatto, realizzato nel 1695, a Filippo Juvarra, inserendolo tra le sue opere giovanili in argento. The unprecedented silver Crucifix from the Palermo private collection is being studied. The presence of the FL.IV punch leads to ascribe the artifact, made in 1695, to Filippo Juvarra, inserting it among his youthful works in silver.
Ugo Zovetti and Book Decoration. A New Acquisition for the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Drawings and Prints Cabinet
2020
The essay focuses on a valuable acquisition of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini graphic art collections: a group of works by Ugo Zovetti Senior (Curzola, Dalmatia, 1879 - Milan, 1974). Ugo Zovetti was a great master of decoration and also distinguished himself in other fields, such as mural painting, advertising painting and engraving. An original, multifaceted artist, Zovetti is particularly valued for his works on paper, and especially the outstanding, highly refined decorated papers.
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.
The Portuguese Man-of-War Has Always Entered the Mediterranean Sea—Strandings, Sightings, and Museum Collections
2022
A search of records from different kinds of sources namely, scientific and grey literature, social media, and zoological museum collections, has been carried out to review the incidence of Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), the Portuguese man-of-war, in the Mediterranean Sea. The temporal frame of the records, considered valid if documented with images or collected specimens, ranged from the second half of the eighteenth century to the year 2021. Thanks to colonies preserved in some Italian historical museum collections, originating from the western basin, it was possible to date the putative first documented record of P. physalis of the Mediterranean Sea in 1850. The dataset shows some ma…
Colmare il gap nelle competenze di bio-ricostruzione di scheletri di Cetacei in Sicilia
A first inventory of raptors in Sicilian collections
2019
The Elasmobranchs collections in the Italian Natural History Museums
2019
Il corallo trapanese nel collezionismo di ieri e di oggi: una raccolta di arte sacra tra Seicento e Settecento alla XXXI Biennale dell’Antiquariato
2020
The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiques in Florence demonstrates show such production was characterized by a consistently high cultural level and refined artistic knowledge. Whereas from the 16th Century onwards the main players in this trend were sovereigns, nobles and high prelates, between the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, antique dealers and wealthy private individuals became the main players, as they were attracted, like their predecessors, by the exquisite beauty of Trapanese coral artifacts, which still commands high prices in the art market. The article proposes a scientific study of the wor…
Museomics Provides Insights into Conservation and Education:The Instance of an African Lion Specimen from the Museum of Zoology “Pietro Doderlein”
2023
Innovative technological approaches are crucial to enhance naturalistic museum collections and develop information repositories of relevant interest to science, such as threatened animal taxa. In this context, museomics is an emerging discipline that provides a novel approach to the enhancement and exploitation of these collections. In the present study, the discovery of a neglected lion skeleton in the Museum of Zoology “Pietro Doderlein” of the University of Palermo (Italy) offered the opportunity to undertake a multidisciplinary project. The aims of the study consisted of the following: (i) adding useful information for museographic strategies, (ii) obtaining a new genetic data repositor…