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Italian art refers to the visual arts produced in Italy from antiquity to the present, encompassing a wide range of styles, movements, and techniques. It includes significant contributions from periods such as the Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern art, reflecting the cultural, historical, and social contexts of Italy throughout its history.
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Italian art refers to the visual arts produced in Italy from antiquity to the present, encompassing a wide range of styles, movements, and techniques. It includes significant contributions from periods such as the Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern art, reflecting the cultural, historical, and social contexts of Italy throughout its history.

Key research themes

1. How do Italian artists negotiate self-representation and identity through varied media and modes during the Baroque period?

This theme investigates the multifaceted role of self-portraiture and self-representation in Baroque Italy, focusing on the strategic use of drawing and painting, the socio-economic functions of self-portraits, and the interplay of humor and critique through caricature. Understanding these artistic choices sheds light on evolving artist identities and cultural contexts in the 17th century.

Key finding: This study provides a nuanced analysis revealing that Baroque self-portrait drawings were not mere likenesses but deliberate tools of self-fashioning, communicating layered personal and professional identities. By comparing... Read more
Key finding: This paper uncovers a rare 1710 letter by Carlo Maratti to Pope Clement XI that illuminates Baroque concepts of artistic authorship and legacy. Maratti defends his work in the Baptismal Chapel against critiques by invoking... Read more
Key finding: Through stylistic and documentary analysis, this work situates Bonifacio de’ Pitati as a pivotal Venetian artist negotiating identity within a dynamic artistic milieu. Early influences from Palma il Vecchio and connections to... Read more

2. What materials, techniques, and socio-political symbolism define Italian artistic production and cultural narratives across periods from Renaissance to Contemporary art?

This theme examines Italian art's materiality and symbolic frameworks over various epochs, focusing on technical practices such as the multidisciplinary study of large-format paintings, the usage of low-tech materials in the 1960s artistic experiments (Tecnica Povera), and the reactivation of mythic-political symbolism in Renaissance imagery. Investigations highlight how material choices and iconography coalesce to express aesthetic responses, political identities, and cultural memory.

Key finding: By integrating environmental monitoring, fungal spore quantification, pigment crystal distribution analysis, and biostratigraphic identification of nannofossils, this study developed a minimally invasive protocol to... Read more
Key finding: This critical essay elaborates on the late 1960s Italian neo-avantgarde's re-engagement with manual craft techniques and natural materials as counterpoints to prior technological exuberance in art movements. It identifies a... Read more
Key finding: This comprehensive historical study traces the symbol of the she-wolf from Rome's foundation myths through its Renaissance revival as a political emblem under Pope Sixtus IV. The paper evidences how the strategic relocation... Read more

3. How have understudied Italian artists and workshops contributed to artistic production and market strategies within regional and transnational networks from the Renaissance to early modern periods?

This theme explores the operative dynamics of lesser-known Italian artists and workshops, emphasizing their role in expanding artistic genres, shaping market practices, and embedding art within broader socio-economic and migratory contexts. It underlines the commercial and stylistic interplay between Italian and Northern European influences, the migration of artisan workers, and the impact of familial workshops on artistic entrepreneurship.

Key finding: This study reveals that Carlo Antonio Procaccini, operating within a prominent Milanese family workshop, innovatively integrated Flemish landscape and still-life models into Lombard artistic traditions. It demonstrates how... Read more
Key finding: This research uncovers the movement and professional strategies of Swiss-Lombard sculptors engaged initially in Milan Cathedral’s 19th-century construction, who later migrated to Paris. By highlighting their roles as... Read more
Key finding: Through the identification of new preparatory drawings, this paper reevaluates the contributions of Felice and Vincenzo Pellegrini, pupils of Federico Barocci. It highlights Vincenzo’s distinctive fusion of Barocci’s style... Read more

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Praskovya Myatleva (1772—1859) was an amateur actress and entrepreneur who devoted most of her life to the stage, from the court theatre of Catherine II to her own theatre at the Znamenka estate. The article reconstructs actress’ creative... more
In a collection made almost exclusively of objects from central and eastern Europe, and with an undeniable prevalence of Hanukkah lamps, the six Italian amulet cases from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, make for a pleasant surprise. Of... more
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l mio contributo tratta lo spazio circolare (o poligonale) nell'architettura profana, tanto nella teoria, quanto nella prassi edilizia del Rinascimento italiano. Sulla base della pretesa generalmente accampata dagli architetti di far... more
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Excerpt: Costellazione (www.costell-azione.com), the digital project by Florida State University art historian and curator Tenley Bick, which is “dedicated to mapping new directions in contemporary Italian art,” is a wonderful addition to... more
Ernesto Treccani's Graphics / (LT) Ernesto Treccanio grafika.▪️First review of the first exhibition of the famous Italian artist Ernesto Treccani in Lithuania.
Nuove prospettive sulla lezione di un grande maestro, che ha saputo coniugare mito antico e uomo moderno d i M a r c o T o n e l l i Lo scultore anticlassico Marino Marini in un ritratto di Aurelio Amendola a Forte dei Marmi, 1973.... more
Riscritture dantesche, Convegno di studi PRIN 2022 "Dante nella contemporaneità. Le riscritture teatrali", Torino, 23 settembre 2025
At what point did political change become a positive category? This book examines the advent of seigniorial systems and the figure of the civil prince in fifteenth-century Italy, exploring the analogies between Medicean politics and that... more
Nell'ambito del XXVII Congresso dell'AIPI (Associazione internazionale dei professori di italiano) che si terrà presso l'Università di Pescara-Chieti dal 24 al 26 settembre 2026, dedicato a Passioni, emozioni, affetti nella cultura... more
di Alice Bernieri Prendendo spunto da un dipinto in collezione privata, che presenta una copia della Sant’Anna Metterza del Traini alla Princeton University Art Gallery, ed è forse opera di un pittore pietrasantino, in questo contributo... more
The article reflects on how the Italian public, critics and artists reacted to Robert Rauschenberg during the 1960s. Through a study of periodicals, exhibition catalogues and unpublished archival materials, the author reconstructs... more
Antonietta Raphaël (Kaunas 1895 – Roma 1975) ha vissuto molte vite, è stata capace di risorgere dalle proprie ceneri più e più volte senza mai perdere la sua identità, in un costante processo di resilienza che l’ha portata ad essere tra... more
>Anatomy of a Double Forgery in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Sculpture: the ‘Cecilia Gonzaga’ «OPVS DONATELLI» in Slovakia< Since 1975, the Spiš Museum in Levoča, eastern Slovakia, has preserved a marble half-bust of a young woman,... more
The first part of the study reflects the urban Epiphany phenomenon of Three Kings cortege. The festivity originated in Milano as a response to the city's loss of the Magi relics by their transfer to Cologne. The study afterwards... more
L'argomento di questa tesi si sviluppa intorno due poli, il mercato dell'arte contemporanea e l'artista Gino de Dominicis, la cui refrattarietà al “sistema” era ben nota all'interno del mondo dell'arte. L'intento di questa tesi è quello... more
Se estudian sobre todo los ensayos y comentarios dedicados al arte italiano y, en particular, a la vida y obra de Leonardo da Vinci y al desenvolvimiento del Renacimiento veneciano. La pasión viajera, que llevó al escritor por Italia y... more
Sento la patria come una cultura e un sentimento di libertà, non come un colore qualsiasi sulla carta geografica … [I feel country as a culture and a feeling of freedom, not as some color on a geographical map …]
Neapolis, la città nuova fondata dai Greci ateniesi prima della caduta di Troia, si governò per lungo tempo, anche quando confederata con Roma, con leggi e costumi greci assai simili a quelli romani. Napoli subirà nei secoli numerose... more
Propuesta de análisis y algunos referentes iconográficos sobre la pintura "El idilio" de María Izquierdo.
Resumen Medoro Angelino es una de esas figuras sobre las cuales, aunque ya se ha escrito mucho, aún quedan varios puntos por explorar y aclarar. En este sentido, el artículo pretende poner de relieve algunos aspectos inéditos del artista.... more
Радченко, Константин Федорович. Отчет о занятиях рукописями в библиотеках и других ученых учреждениях Москвы и С.-Петербурга в течение сентября и октября 1896 года / магистранта К.Ф. Радченка. – Киев : Типография Императорского... more
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"Evoluzione simbolica" è un progetto espositivo di Andrea Benetti che affonda le sue radici nel “Manifesto dell’Arte Neorupestre”, presentato alla 53ª Biennale di Venezia, dove l’artista propone un ponte concettuale tra arte preistorica e... more
Nel catalogo che raccoglie le opere in bianco, Andrea Benetti completa le semplificazioni grafiche che animano la sua "grotta tecnologica", sempre in bilico tra passato arcaico e futuro ipertecnologico, come sostiene Silvia Grandi:... more
All’alba dell’umanità, ancor prima di inventare la scrittura, l’uomo sentì la necessità di comunicare, di lasciare una traccia di sé nel mondo; tutto ciò lo fece grazie alla pittura. Quell’uomo si rapportava ogni giorno con il sole, con... more
We live in a time when everything becomes noise. The city is criss-crossed by images that dispute the gaze, messages that saturate the space, gestures that, in their eagerness to be seen, become invisible. In this context, public art... more
This essay considers three paintings in the Colby College Museum of Art, which have the remarkable distinction of being by four 17th-century artists who knew each other and who, as it were, meet again, across time and space. Uncovering... more
Статья содержит новые сведения об истории создания и бытования двух идентичных живописных портретов Г. Р. Державина (1811) кисти В. Л. Боровиковского из собрания Всероссийского музея А. С. Пушкина.
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What does it take to see a tragedy? Who has the priviledge of oblivion? In this essay we explore the presence and display of African children and artifacts in eighteenth-century Paris via their visual, material, and textual traces. While... more
Il giudizio dell'occhio Portrait de l'artiste en juge (de l'art) Philipp Zitzlsperger Résumés Dans l'église Saint-Etienne à Vienne se trouvent deux portraits du tailleur de pierre et architecte Anton Pilgram. Ils font exception dans... more
As for the fourteen panels from the Wandelhalle, waiting for them to be lost would be shortsighted, as was said in last April’s issue, especially in light of the values ​​Lenhart is obtaining. The economic impact produced by his works on... more
Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts publishes innovative research into visual culture in modernist Italy, as well as in diasporic linguistic and cultural communities beyond this particular geographic, historic, and political boundary.... more
Barbara Sieroszewska (1904-1989), regarded alongside Zofia Jachimecka and Zofia Ernstowa, as one of the most significant post-war translators of Italian literature, made a substantial contribution to the development of the Polish canon of... more
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