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Appunti per lo stucco «de marmoro» a Bologna nei primi decenni del Cinquecento (con un'ipotesi su Baldassarre Peruzzi)
No full textThis article examines the diffusion of the technique of stucco made of marble powder in Bologna in the first decades of the sixteenth century through unpublished documents. The author argues that architect Baldassarre Peruzzi played a crucial role in the diffusion of this technique in Northern Italy
Alfonso Lombardi a Santa Maria della Vita: per una rilettura stilistica
No full textAfter having spent the first years of his career as a sculptor at the court of Ferrara, Alfonso Lombardi moved to Bologna in about 1519. There, before 1522, Lombardi completed a large-scale terracotta statuary group of the Funeral of the Virgin for the confraternity of Santa Maria della Vita. In his crafting of this work the sculptor succeeded in reinventing the language of sculpture according to the canons of Roman-inspired figurative culture of the first two decades of the sixteenth century, known in Emilia above all through the circulation of drawings and prints. An attentive stylistic study enables us to read the Funeral of the Virgin through the lens of Alfonso Lombardi’s training in Ferrara, appropriately setting the work in the context of Emilian Raphaelism around 1520. A remarkable aspect of these statues is the naturalistic handling of expressions and flesh passages, now more appreciable through a new series of photographs
Per i busti ritratto in marmo di Alfonso Lombardi (con una proposta per il perduto Carlo V e una lettera del cardinale Innocenzo Cibo
No full textAmong the many marble portrait busts executed by the Ferrarese sculptor Alfonso Lombardi (c. 1497 - 1537), Giorgio Vasari mentions only four in his biography of the artist: the portraits of Giuliano de’ Medici, Duke of Nemours and Pope Clement VII, now both in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and two versions of the bust of Charles V, considered lost. The article seeks to retrace the physical history of these four objects, from their genesis to how they were collected. Thanks to a new photographic campaign, a thorough analysis of the Palazzo Vecchio busts can now be made. Viewed from the side, the bust of Giuliano is revealed as a faithful derivation from a medal produced in Rome in 1513. The bust of Clement VII shows that it was conceived in stylistic dialogue with portraits of the pontiff by other artists at the Papal Court: Sebastiano del Piombo, Benvenuto Cellini and Giovanni Bernardi. The second part of the article hypothesises that the lost bust of Charles V carved by Lombardi in 1533 was a portrait in armour. The sculptor’s correspondence reveals that a second version of this bust was made in the same year for Alessandro de’ Medici, Duke of Florence: once owned by Cardinal Innocenzo Cibo, this can be identified as the fragmentary sculpture now housed in the fortress in Massa
Alterità e principio del dialogo in Guido Calogero
No full textLo scritto affronta gli aspetti salienti della filosofia del dialogo nell'ultima riflessione di Guido Calogero
Rediscovered Drawings by Bartolomeo Spani
No full textTwo groups of drawings, in the Morgan Library&Museum, New York, and the Musée du Louvre, Paris, are here attributed to the Emilian artist Bartolomeo Spani. Representing the range of his work from goldsmithery to monumental sculpture, they throw light on the relationship between these media at the turn of the sixteenth century, when the artistic status of goldsmiths’work was in decline
La scultura nella prima metà del Cinquecento
No full textThis essay discusses the life and works of two sculptors working in Faenza in the first half of the sixteenth century: Pietro Barilotto and Alfonso Lombardi
Alfonso Lombardi e i materiali della scultura
No full textThis volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the life and works of the Renaissance sculptor Alfonso Lombardi (1497 circa - 1537). Beyond biographical and critical chapters, this volume contains a catalogue with comprehensive entries for each work of art and an appendix of documents with full transcriptions
Creating Sculpture: Renaissance Drawings and Models. Edited by Michael Cole, Ana Debenedetti and Peta Motture, with Kira d'Alburquerque, 224 pp. incl. 150 col. + 5 b. & w. ills. (V&A Publishing, London, 2022), £ 35. ISBN 978-1-85177-998-7.
No full textReview of Creating Sculpture: Renaissance Drawings and Models. Edited by Michael Cole, Ana Debenedetti and Peta Motture, with Kira d'Alburquerque, 224 pp. incl. 150 col. + 5 b. & w. ills. (V&A Publishing, London, 2022), £ 35. ISBN 978-1-85177-998-7
Da medaglista a scultore. La riscoperta di Sperandio tra Otto e Novecento (e una nuova proposta attributiva)
No full textThis article examines the critical appreciation of the Renaissance artist Sperandio da Mantova both as a medalist and as a sculptor between the XIX and the XX centuries
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