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L'avventurina nei gioielli siciliani tra Seicento e Ottocento
2021
The aventurine glass between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries was much appreciated by Sicilian women, aristocrats, bourgeois but also commoners, especially for its characteristic color
L’inventario dei giogali del cavaliere Fra’ Alessio di Ferro (1700-80): alcune considerazioni sull’oreficeria tra Sicilia e Malta
2019
The article deals with the inventory, in part unpublished, of 1763 of the jewels owned by the knight of Saint John Fra 'Alessio di Ferro, which is located in the State Archives in Trapani. He was an illustrious exponent of one of the most prominent families in the centuries of the city of Trapani linked to the island of Malta. The inventory offers the opportunity to reflect on typologies, materials and styles most in vogue between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Mediterranean jewellery and, consequently, the inspiration for some transversal reflections concerning the history of the male jewelry, still little explored, among Sicily and Malta.
A Curious Marian Coral Ex-voto from Sicily: an Historical-Artistic and Anthropological Interpretation
2022
This paper is inspired by an ex-voto in the shape of a sea animal made of red coral dating back to the 19th century, which was found in a well-known Marian treasury of Sicily. This small amulet is significant both for its shape and material and has given rise to some historical-artistic and anthropological reflections
Eivinas’ Visigothic Bezel
2019
Presentamos aquí el chatón de un anillo visigótico de procedencia desconocida y fechado probablemente en el siglo vii. El chatón contiene un único nombre: eivinas, posiblemente el primer testimonio epigráfico de un nombre báltico y más concretamente prusiano. This paper presents the bezel of a Visigothic ring of unknown origin and probably dated in the 7th century. The bezel contains a single name: eivinas, possibly the first epigraphic testimony of a Baltic, or more specifically Prussian name. Humanidades
Il reliquiario a sarcofago di Santa Ninfa a Palermo
2022
In full affirmation of the themes of the Counter-Reformation, the city of Palermo pays homage to one of its Patronesses with the creation of a monumental silver urn. Through the analysis of documentary sources and the necessary formal and stylistic surveys, the history of the precious sacred goldsmith's work is reconstructed
Beigaben aus dem Grab Konstanzes von Aragón (scheda F 7_6a-d)
2022
I tre anelli d'oro con gemme e l'endotaffio in argento, oggi esposti al Tesoro della Cattedrale di Palermo, fanno parte del corredo funebre dell'imperatrice Costanza d'Aragona, prima moglie di Federico II di Svevia, morta nel 1222, e provengono dal suo sarcofago The three gold rings with gems and the silver endotaffio, now on display in the Treasure of Palermo Cathedral, are part of the funeral trousseau of Empress Constance of Aragon, first wife of Frederick II of Swabia, who died in 1222, and come from her sarcophagus Die drei goldenen Ringe mit Edelsteinen und das silberne Endotaffio, die heute im Schatz der Kathedrale von Palermo ausgestellt sind, gehören zur Aussteuer der 1222 verstorb…
The Gifts to Sicilian Sanctuaries from Spanish Viceroys and Local Nobility
2018
In seventeenth-century Sicily, worship, and the devotion that the noble and aristocratic classes in particular felt for the island’s main sanctuaries and the images that were venerated in them, stimulated the production of the decorative arts. Spanish viceroys and vicereines, and noblemen and women, commissioned many objects in order to offer them to the most important Sicilian sanctuaries as a sign of profound devotion and political power. The strong, intense presence of the Spanish nobility in Sicily explains the Spanish stylistic influences, which are manifested in the Sicilian production of decorative art objects, and especially in jewellery, an aspect that went hand in hand with fashio…
Gioielli e suppellettili d'argento nelle corti dei Moncada tra XVI e XVII secolo
2010
Si analizzano gli interessanti manufatti d'argento e le preziose gioie elencati negli inventari stilati dopo la morte di Cesare Moncada, che aveva sposato Luisa Luna e de Vega. Emergono interessanti tipologie di manufatti messi a confronto con altri simili pressoché coevi. We analyse the interesting silver artefacts and the precious joys listed in the inventories drawn up after the death of Cesare Moncada, who had married Luisa Luna and de Vega. Interesting types of artefacts emerge compared with other similar contemporary ones.
“Iugalia aurea et argentea et bona mobilia”. Postille documentarie sui Ventimiglia di Gratteri
2019
Numerosi inventari, atti dotali, testamenti e donazioni rintracciati presso l’Archivio di Stato di Palermo permettono di ricostruire la ricchezza e la varietà del patrimonio artistico della famiglia Ventimiglia del ramo di Gratteri. Numerous inventories, doctrinal deeds, wills and donations found at the State Archives of Palermo make it possible to reconstruct the wealth and variety of the artistic heritage of the Ventimiglia family of the Gratteri branch.
Dal profano al sacro: oreficerie e abiti nella Sicilia tardo-medievale
2019
Nell’Europa tardo medioevale le leggi suntuarie disciplinarono l’uso di abiti e gioielli e i frati predicatori portarono avanti campagne moralizzatrici contro il lusso, con discorsi nelle piazze e roghi delle vanità. In Sicilia gioielli e abiti lussuosi divennero una forma d’investimento, servivano per costituire le doti, si trasmettevano in eredità e potevano essere impegnati. Modificare gli oggetti profani, simbolo di peccato, in paramenti e arredi sacri fu considerata un’opera meritoria, fondamentale per la salvezza dell’anima. Beni temporali, acquistati a volte con un arricchimento illecito, subivano una metamorfosi che consentiva di conciliare aeterna e temporalia. Nel Trecento nobildo…