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A MOST HAVE FOR THE ART HISTORIAN! Dopo la pubblicazione del primo tomo, che raccoglie il patrimonio architettonico e artistico del Fondo Edifici di Culto di 129 luoghi di culto presenti in Piemonte, Veneto, Liguria, Emilia Romagna,... more
Gregorio Allegri Opere Inedite dai manoscritti della Collectio Altaemps Musica Flexanima Ensemble Dir Fabrizio Bigotti Tactus Records 2014 Review with five stars by DAVID PONSFORD for the American Journal CHOIR AND ORGAN (May... more
c) Le cronache di Santa Cecilia. Un monastero femminile a Roma in età moderna, (n. 5 of the book series “La memoria restituita – Fonti per la storia delle donne”), Rome: Viella 2009. The book includes the transcription of the Chronicles... more
Between 2001 and 2010, the REQUIEM research project explored the Roman papal and cardinal tombs in the context of the history of art and persons. The introductory essay of the anthology summarises the results of the art historical and... more
Francisco de Herrera el Mozo (Siviglia, 1627-Madrid, 1685) è uno degli artisti più singolari del Barocco maturo in Spagna. La sua presenza in Italia è stato sempre un nodo centrale, che la critica ha cercato di sciogliere sin dalla... more
Graduate seminar on the urban morphology of early modern Rome. Other themes of the course include the patronage of the papal courts and Counter-Reformation painting.
Published in "Rubens e la cultura italiana 1600-1608" a cura di Raffaella Morselli e Cecilia Paolini VIELLA
The essay discusses the cultural background of Greuter’s "Roma moderna" through examining the images and texts chosen by the author to frame the cartographic core of his work.
Beachte den Nachtrag RIA 76, 2021, 125ff.
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The Roman and the Neapolitan school of still-life painting are in 17th Century among the most important in Europe. During the whole Seicento, these two schools are closely tied and produced a large amount of paintings of flowers, fruits,... more
The Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher SJ is among the prominent writers of seventeenth-century Europe, and his China illustrata (1667) was one of the most celebrated and influential works on China of the period. The present essay... more
Rom bildete im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert die zentrale Bühne für die Außendarstellung der europäischen Mächte. Zur Feier dynastischer und militärischer Ereignisse empfingen die auswärtigen Gesandten die römische Elite in den... more
By examining how Queen Christina of Sweden collected, what she collected, and where she displayed objects, we can better understand her motives for amassing what became the Early Modern period’s largest collection of antiquities owned by... more
Life and works of a notable and underestimated architect in Late-Baroque Rome.
“The Twin Aviary Pavilions of the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine: Roman Antiquity, the Levant, and the Architecture of Garden Pavilions.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome vol. 59/60, 2014/15, 361-398. This paper investigates the... more
In 1593, as the science of magnetism was undergoing important advances, the aristocratic students at the Jesuits’ flagship school, the Roman College, adopted as their academic emblem a lodestone—a naturally occurring magnetic rock—that... more
The marble heads known as the Anima beata and the Anima dannata, a pair of masterpieces created by Bernini in his youth, still pose many questions relating to their origin, dating and meaning. This article presents new documentary... more
The article brings new insights about the origin and the cult of the miraculous image of Our-Lady-Of-Victory, which was found in 1620 in the village of Štenovice near Pilsen (Western Bohemia); an edition of the archive sources is enclosed.
Between 1675 and 1690, a decisive span of years in Carlo Fontana’s career, the Roman publisher Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi produced some books of prints illustrating the major buildings of modern Rome: palace facades (“Nuovi Disegni delle... more
Il contributo indaga su di un "Ritratto di prelato" agli Uffizi, attribuito a Caravaggio. Rigettando l'attribuzione al Merisi ma riconoscendone l'ambiente caravaggesco, il saggio prova piuttosto ad associare l'identità del ritrattato con... more
This article examines the progress of a series of ambassadorial visits to Rome by emissaries from the Kongo, Japan, and Safavid Persia as they unfolded over the reign of Pope Paul V. Close attention is paid to the visual representation of... more
For the individual chapters, see the section 'MAJ 13 The Site of Rome' her on Academia. ."Chapter 1. Julie Rowe (La Trobe University): Rome's Mediaeval Fish Market at S. Angelo in Pescheria Chapter 2. Joan Barclay Lloyd (La Trobe... more