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IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 12 (16), 2021, p. 50–65. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/13929 Special issue edited by Mario Bevilacqua and Marco Folin: Dominion of the Sacred: Image, Cartography, Knowledge of the City after the Council of Trent
In the second half of the 16th century, Girolamo Righettino, a brilliant draughtsman and theologian (a member of the Order of the Canons Lateran), produced city views with ornamental frames characterised by their rich allegorical programme. The drawings earned him widespread fame and were handsomely rewarded. A recently discovered autograph manuscript by Righettino sheds precious light on his only surviving view-an elaborate plan of Turin (1583). This article offers an introductory portrait of a personality forgotten to history and presents new research that allows us to situate his unique output-at the intersection of art and science, theology and politics, topography and allegory-in the wider context of Counter-Reformation Italy, when the ambitions of absolutist rulers were stoked by the fear of Turkish advances in the Mediterranean.
The Sixteenth century journal
The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography, and Politics in Renaissance Italy2006 •
Pegasus - Berliner Beiträge zum Nachleben der Antike
“Francesco di Giorgio and the Reconstruction of Antiquity: Epigraphy, archeology, and newly discovered drawings,” Pegasus (2014, published 2015)2014 •
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This dissertation examines the art and architecture commissioned for the religious complex of San Giorgio in Braida in Verona between 1441 and 1668 and demonstrates that it embodied the visual corporate identity formulated by the Congregation of Secular Canons at San Giorgio in Alga, their mother church in Venice. The Congregation was a major player in the pre-Tridentine reform movements of northern Italy and its iconographic program was part of its strategy to reform the clergy and monastic life in general. Using new archival findings and San Giorgio in Braida’s artistic patrimony as primary evidence, I unravel and explain the Secular Canons’ considered identity. I then demonstrate that the Congregation adapted it as it matured and reacted to major religious, political and artistic changes that rippled across the Veneto between the Congregation’s founding in 1402 and its suppression in 1668. This dissertation also examines the modes of patronage used by the Canons at San Giorgio in Braida, and by extension, the system of patronage used by the Congregation as a whole. Eventually every commission at all eleven of its religious houses was underpinned by this iconographic program, which had the effect of binding the Canons and their surroundings both spiritually and visually. Though some of the Canons’ churches have been the focus of specific research, this is the first to investigate the whole Congregation as a single, thoughtful commissioner of art.
Religion and The Arts
Pictures From an Exhibition: Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image1999 •
Religious Studies Review
Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni â By Pamela M. Jones2009 •
Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy. Art and the Verdant Earth
From Venice to Tivoli: Girolamo Muziano and the ‘Invention’ of the Tiburtine Landscape2019 •
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The (Malta) Sunday Times
Giulio Cassarino (1588-1637): A minor painter in the shadow of Caravaggio1982 •
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Renaissance Studies
Bert W.Meijer, Il disegno veneziano 1580–1650: ricostruzioni storico‐artistiche. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2017. 596 pp. €120. ISBN: 978‐88‐222‐6503‐6 (hb)2019 •
Proceedings of the "Electronic Imaging the Visual Arts EVA 2014 Florence" conference
Giorgio Verdiani, Riccardo Pacciani, Carla Mastroberti - A place of faith and devotion and its contemporary re-reading, the digital survey and interpretation of the San Vivaldo “Jerusalem” area near Florence2014 •
American Historical Review
Review of: MASSIMO FIRPO and Fabrizio Biferali. Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento2018 •
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Renaissance Studies, vol. 22 no. 2
Giambologna's Salviati reliefs of St Antoninus of Florence: saintly images and political manipulation2008 •
Renaissance Quarterly
Images, Relics, and Devotional Practices in Medieval and Renaissance Italy2007 •