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Alfonso Lombardi, da Ferrara ai giorni dell’incoronazione. Un dialogo fra le arti
No full textNew documents and stylistic analysis shed light on the life and work of the Ferrarese sculptor Alfonso Lombardi (c. 1497-1537)
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
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
Drawing Tradition: Malvasia, Alfonso Lombardi, and the Use of Models in Bologna
No full textIn 1519 Alfonso Lombardi (c. 1497-1537) realised a monumental group in terracotta for the oratory of Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna. According to Carlo Cesare Malvasia (1686), Lombardi's sculptures were cast and reproduced, so that Bolognese painters could use them as a models in their workshops. An overlooked series of drawings from several museums (Florence, Chicago, Haarlem, London and New York) confirm Malvasia's words. These sheets demonstrate that Lombardi's sculptures circulated in Bolognese workshops from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century. Celebrated painters such as Bartolomeo Passerotti, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Guido Reni and Donati Creti used Lombardi's three-dimensional creations as drawing models. The rediscovery of such an artistic practice based on sculpture challenges the historiographical tradition of Bolognese art dominated by its school of famous painters
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
The chronicle of Alfonson lll and its significance for the historiography of the Asturian kingdom 718-910 AD
No full textThe Asturian kingdom provided the earliest organised
resistance in the Iberian peninsula to the Muslim invaders who overthrew the Visigothic state at the start of the 8th century. Information on the origins of the Asturian kingdom is regrettably sparse. Historians of the kingdom are totally reliant on a late 9th-century cycle of Asturian chronicles associated with the royal court, the most substantial of which is the Chronicle of Alfonso III. This work has survived in two fundamental recensions from the 10th century. Historians' gratitude for its existence is tinged with frustration at its readily apparent weaknesses, such as a chronological imprecision on events and an enigmatic brevity in the commentary.
This thesis considers the 9th-century Asturian chronicles in
the context of their own time. In particular, it examines the Chronicle of Alfonso III not as a disappointing source which fails to yield to modern scholars the information they crave on this obscure period of early Spanish history, but, rather, as an expression of the aims of a medieval author and his copyists. The Chronicle was the product of scarce and valuable resources. Its author, within the limits of his literary ability and source of information, transmitted a message which interacted with the individual understanding of its intended audience. This shift of
emphasis in analysing the Chronicle of Alfonso III rests on the assumption that its original text may be recognised in the later recensions which used it, by addition or omission, as a vehicle for their own interests
La rete insediativa medievale della Sardegna nord-orientale: stato degli studi, nuovi dati archeologici e prospettive di ricerca
No full textLa disomogeneità delle componenti geografiche e la tettonica permettono di percepire la Sardegna come un insieme di realtà geoantropiche distinte, a partire da sub-regioni fisicamente definite. Tra queste, come a più riprese è stato sottolineato dagli studiosi, l’ampia area della Gallura, nella porzione nord-orientale dell’isola presenta una serie di specificità, fisiche, ambientali e culturali, che rendono possibile riconoscerle una particolarità tra le diverse sub-regioni sarde.
La posizione, esposta ai contatti con la vicina Corsica e con le coste tirreniche della penisola italiana, ne ha influenzato le vicende fin dalla preistoria, contribuendo alla percezione di una specifica identità del territorio, ancor oggi avvertita. Nel corso del medioevo si sviluppò in tale area il giudicato di Gallura, una delle quattro entità statuali in cui appare suddivisa la Sardegna.
Gli studi su tale territorio lamentano una carenza di fonti scritte, per una zona rimasta in gran parte priva di insediamenti stabili dall’inizio dell’età moderna fino a periodi recenti.
L’unica opera di insieme, basata sulla scarna documentazione disponibile e su osservazioni topografiche e linguistiche, che ha proposto una argomentata localizzazione dei centri abitati scomparsi in relazione ai distretti (curatorias) del giudicato venne pubblicata nel 1978 da Dionigi Panedda.
Altre osservazioni sul territorio gallurese, nelle sue trasformazioni tra la tarda antichità e il medioevo sono stati presentati dal sottoscritto in un volume del 2008, che sintetizzava le ricerche compiute nell’ambito del dottorato di ricerca in “Archeologia e Antichità postclassiche” dell’Università di Roma-La Sapienza.
Oggi appare opportuno, alla luce di alcuni interventi di scavo archeologico e delle attività di ricognizione sul territorio intraprese nell’ambito dell’insegnamento di Archeologia medievale dell’Università di Cagliari, proporre alcune riflessioni su forme, distribuzione, ruolo nel territorio e cronologia dei diversi insediamenti attribuibili alla Gallura medievale e segnalare alcune possibili prospettive di ricerca per la proposta di un quadro aggiornato, fondato su fonti e metodi archeologici
Aggressive, Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma After a 46-Year-Old History of Chronic Osteomyelitis and Local Infectious Complications: A Case Report
No full textMarjolin’s ulcer is a squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) arising from any site of established chronic inflammation, especially with presence of scar tissue.
An emblematic case report of locally disseminated SCC arising from a chronic osteomyelitis of the left leg complicated by recurring soft tissue infections lasting since 46 years is presented and discussed according to the available international literature evidence. Concurrent diseases, supporting factors, clinical and histopathological presentation, differential diagnosis, and time and mode of management of this potentially functional- and life-threatening pathological condition are reviewed and discussed to offer a theme to daily clinical care
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