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Between God and Man
How Italian artists have represented one of the most revered religious images--the angel
The Pantheon
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Displacing Caravaggio
This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggio’s work, Francesco Zucconi takes Baroque art as a point of departure to guide readers through some of the most haunting and compelling images of our time. Each chapter analyzes a different form of media and explores a problem that ties together art history and humanitarian communications: from Caravaggio’s attempt to represent life itself as a subject of painting to the way bodies and emotions are presented in NGO campaigns. What emerges from this probing inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.
Greek and Roman Small Size Sculpture
Considerations about size and scale have always played a central role within Greek and Roman visual culture, deeply affecting sculptural production. Both Greeks and Romans, in particular, had a clear notion of “colossality” and were able to fully exploit its implications with sculpture in many different areas of social, cultural and religious life. Instead, despite their ubiquitous presence, an equal and contrary categorization for small size statues does not seem to have existed in Greek and Roman culture, leading one to wonder what were the ancient ways of conceptualizing sculptural representations in a format markedly smaller than “life-size.” Even in the context of modern scholar...
La Pietra
This beautiful, heavily illustrated volume reveals the beauty and history of one of the great Florentine villas and of the extraordinary Anglo-American family, the Actons, who in the 20th century restored it to its former glory.
Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. It analyzes debates about the household and community management of wealth, emotion, and trade in luxury “goods,” including enslaved women, as moral questions. Juliann Vitullo considers how this mercantile economy affected paternity and the portraits of ideal fatherhood, which in some cases reconceived the role of fathers and in others reconfirmed traditional notions of paternal authority.
I Papi della Speranza
Catalogo della mostra presso il Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo dal 16 maggio al 16 novembre 2014. La mostra curata da Maria Grazia Bernardini e Mario Lolli Ghetti, in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale della città di Roma, e con la partecipazione dei Musei Vaticani, la Fabbrica di San Pietro e l’Archivio e Biblioteca Apostolica di Santa Romana Chiesa, viene ospitata per il 33° anno nelle sale del Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo. L’esposizione dunque con le sue oltre cento opere selezionate tra sculture, pitture, documenti cartacei e reliquiari, ha l’ambiziosa finalità di offrire al pubblico una panoramica sulle vicende storico-artistiche della città papale nel lungo secolo che fu il Seicento.
Capolavori dell'archeologia
Catalogo della mostra a Roma, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo dal 21 Maggio al 5 Novembre 2013 In occasione della trentaduesima edizione della Mostra Europea del Turismo e delle Tradizioni Culturali e dei vent'anni di assidua collaborazione con l'Arma dei Carabinieri, la Guardia di Finanza e la Polizia di Stato, il Centro Europeo per il Turismo presenta la mostra: “Capolavori dell'Archeologia: recuperi, ritrovamenti, confronti”. La mostra è organizzata in sinergia con la Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma, diretta da Daniela Porro, e con l'ausilio di un Comitato Promotore presieduto da Roberto...
