Lo studio della diffusione e ricezione del surrealismo in Italia nel secondo dopoguerra resta ad oggi un campo di ricerca ancora ampiamente da esplorare. Il presente volume intende offrire un contributo in tale ambito presentando, attraverso l’analisi di un consistente corpus di lettere inedite, le relazioni che l’artista surrealista belga Édouard Léon Théodore Mesens ...

La pubblicazione si inserisce nell’ambito delle iniziative celebrative per i cinquecento anni dalla morte di Leonardo da Vinci e, attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare coerente con il genius vinciano, intende promuovere la conoscenza della visita che, agli inizi del Cinquecento ...

The topic of attribution and authentication of art works is a well-known one and is currently the subject of heated debate. To arrive at a univocal scientific...

The book discusses some thirty Italian Renaissance domestic paintings from the Viennese collection of Count Karol Lanckoroñski (1848-1933), which since 1994 have belonged to the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków. The majority of them depict mythological subjects and scenes from Greek and Roman history; they once served as decorations on the walls of nuptial chambers...

The deities and heroes of the ancient Romans were popular subject matter for the frescoes which decorated the sophisticated villas of Pompeii's wealthy citizens. This richly illustraded volume highlights various depictions of the divine and heroic pantheon of ancient Rome. The text explores both the general characteristics of Pompeian painting and its specific treatment of gods and heroes