An Italian Renaissance Gate for the Khan: Visual Culture in Early Modern Crimea by Nicole Kançal-Ferrari

“…She considers that it was made in the Renaissance period and the author of the Gate was very famous Italian sculptor and engraver Alevisio the New (1494?…”
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An ass with precious things in his panniers : John Ruskin s reception of The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari by Jenny Graham

“…This article examines John Ruskin s response to Giorgio Vasari s The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, a text which had a mixed reception during the Victorian period in connection with the rise of new art-historical approaches to the Italian Renaissance. …”
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Unmasking a wild man: scientific analysis of Bertoldo di Giovanni’s Shield Bearer in The Frick Collection by Elena Basso, Federica Pozzi, Julia Day, Linda Borsch

“…This focused research has expanded the current knowledge of the sculptor’s materials and methods, enabling scholars to better contextualize his artistic production within the framework of Italian Renaissance sculpture.…”
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Previously unpublished letters of Henryk and Karol Marconi at the Getty Research Institute by Andrzej Betlej

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Neoclassicism and local artistic tradition in the sepulchral monuments of the Certosa cemetery in Bologna during the napoleonic era and the restoration by Emanuela Bagattoni

“…After a heated debate on whether to put all social classes together in one burial place extra moenia, the Municipality of Bologna resolved the dispute by overcoming the existing Enlightenment-Jacobin egalitarianism: the wide open fields were reserved for the burial of ordinary people, while the wealthy (nobility and the newly rich bourgeoisie) were able to bury their dead in the costly monumental sepulchres in the arches of the Renaissance cloister. The growing number of monuments soon meant that the Bolognese cemetery became the richest exhibition of Italian Neoclassical art and consequently a destination for many Italian and foreign travellers. …”
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Architecture between heteronomy and self-generation by Luigi Alini

“…I told Corrieri, Baroni and Wanda not to notify the Italian Embassy, everything would be cleared up.   …”
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