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Essays and Articles from the Blog
Still Life/ Natura in posa
Andrea Belvedere (c. 1652–1732): Between Naturalism and Lusso Floreale | Meiffren Conte (c. 1630–1705) and the splendour of still life | Francesco Noletti (c. 1611–1654): Texture, Colour and Light |
Quattrocento
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519): Leonardo and Isabella d’Este: The Life of a Drawing | Pontano, Giovanni (1429–1503): Hidden in Plain Sight I: The Pontano Chapel. Architecture, Rhetoric and Memory | Hidden in Plain Sight II: The Pontano Chapel. Aegidius, Memorial and the Later Pontano | Hidden in Plain Sight III: The Pontano Chapel. Public Counsel and the Written Monument | Hidden in Plain Sight IV. The Pontano Chapel: The Authority of Inscription — Pontano and Renaissance Epigraphy | Hidden in Plain Sight V. The Pontano Chapel: The Counsel of Stone — The Twelve Exterior Inscriptions | Hidden in Plain Sight VI. Inside the Pontano Chapel
Cinquecento
Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530): Andrea del Sarto and the Pala di Gambassi: Painting, Friendship and Patronage | Dosso Dossi: Apollo, Fantasia and Form | Piero di Cosimo: Piero di Cosimo’s Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci: Memory and Invention | Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499–1543): Studies for an Annunciation | Raphael (1483–1520): Drawings for the Vault of the Stanza di Eliodoro | Tullio Lombardo: “Lost in Like But Separate Dreams”: Tullio Lombardo’s Double Portrait and Bacchus and Ariadne
Seicento
Battistello Caracciolo: Painting after Caravaggio in Naples (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3: Selected Works) | Cecco del Caravaggio: The Rejected Resurrection | Diana Di Rosa (1602–1643): An Emerging Artistic Identity | Domenichino: The Sublime Heights of Laurels and of Parnassus | Giovanni Andrea Donducci, detto il Mastelletta (1575–1655): Sacred Stories, Private Pictures and Imagined Landscapes | Luca Giordano: The Casón del Buen Retiro and the Last Habsburg Court | Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) and the Reworking of the Annunciation | Mattia Preti (1613–1699): Games, Music and Light: Mattia Preti in Rome | Salvator Rosa (1615–1673): Portraits, Self-Portraits and the Construction of Artistic Identity | Spadarino: The Angelo custode and the Convito degli dei | Velázquez: Tradition and Transformation: Las Hilanderas / The Spinners / The Fable of Arachne
Settecento
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Ottocento
Giuseppe Casciaro: An Introduction with Context | Giuseppe Casciaro (1861–1941): Rue Scribe and an Italian Network in Paris | Vittorio Corcos (1859–1933): The Depth of the Surface: Vittorio Corcos and the Art of Appearance | Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875): A Girl Reading | Ettore Cumbo (1833–1899): Still Life and Quiet Refinement | Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857): Two Landscapes through Windows | Giuseppe De Nittis: Light, Air and Modern Life | Vincenzo Gemito and Mathilde Duffaud: Not Made for Financial Gain | Giacinto Gigante: Landscape Regenerated from Within | Francesco Lojacono: The Changing Vision of Sicily | Antonio Mancini and Édouard Manet: Irreversible Consequences | Antonio Mancini: Hunger and Fame / La fame e la fama | Francesco Paolo Michetti: Light, Colour and the Vitality of Motion | Anton Sminck van Pitloo: Between Rome, Naples, and Northern Europe | Joseph Rebell (1787–1828): Observed Nature and Romantic Imagination | Giovanna Carolina Carlesimo / Juana Romani (1867–1923): Art, Identity and Self-Fashioning between Italy and Paris | Two Women in White: Whistler’s Symphony in White, No. 2 and De Nittis’s Giornata d’inverno
Novecento
Giacomo Balla: From Divisionism to the Futurist Universe (Part 1: Divisionism and the Photographic Real) | Giacomo Balla: From Divisionism to the Futurist Universe (Part 2: Futurism: Light, Speed and Force) | Giacomo Balla: From Divisionism to the Futurist Universe (Part 3: Late Figuration and the Modern Image) | Giacomo Balla: From Divisionism to the Futurist Universe (Part 4: Futurism Beyond the Easel)
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