The fruit of the best Italian critical philology, derived from Longhi, the two volumes dedicated by Francesca Baldassari to the Florentine painter Cecco Bravo (Florence 1601-Innsbruck 1660) allow us to retrace point by point, step by step, the fascinating artistic story of Cecco, ‘bravo’ painter and splendid draughtsman.
Baccio da Montelupo, one of the leading figures of the Florentine Renaissance alongside his friend Michelangelo, is finally celebrated in a monographic work.
This volume is the Ariadne apos’s thread of a journey through the different cultures of the sub-Saharan continent. An attempt to understand so many different artistic expressions, characterised by a single set of reference values that rhythms the daily life of each individual, but not only. Values that refer to rites of passage, social changes within the community, religion and orders of belief in general. These works are very contemporary: they convey the dialectic of a thought, of a universal system of values, weaving an intense link between tribal and modern, a value system that expresses the fundamental stages of the existence of each of us, from the mists of time to modernity: being born, living, dying.
The rediscovery of this text offers the opportunity to closely investigate the scholar’s stays in the city of Verona, rich in monuments and private collections to explore. Richter’s activity as an international art consultant also brings us to the center of a web of stories that has as protagonists some of the main figures in the world of art history of the time such as the great collector Ludwig Mond, the patron Henrietta Hertz and the connoisseur Bernard Berenson.
Niccolò Tornioli is a Sienese painter who was active, during the first half of the 17th century, mainly in the papal city. Sources, but especially a fairly substantial number of documents, Letters, contracts of allotment, will, asset inventory, coeval testimonies or shortly after the death, have made it possible to reconstruct a tormented personality, rich in multiple interests, ranging from painting, of which he experimented with almost all techniques and media, to sculpture, science, and theater.
