Eugenia Bianchi
Titoli dell'autore
Un dipinto di Antonio Giarola in Valtellina
digital

Anno:
2021
The unpublished Saint Anthony of Padua with the Infant Jesus preserved in the oratory of the confreres adjacent to the parish church of Gerola Alta (Sondrio) updates the catalog of the Veronese painter Antonio Giarola called Cavalier Coppa with a late work, the only known with both the signature and the date (1659)...
€ 6,00
Per Federico Panza pittore
digital

Anno:
2020
Federico Panza (1637-1705) is a painter who has remained substantially on the margins of the critics, despite the fact that since the Sixties of the last century Edoardo Arslan underlined the originality and quality of the rare known works, capable of electing him one of the most interesting active Lombard painters in the moment of transition between baroque and rococo...
€ 6,00
Per Giovanni Ambrogio Besozzi
digital

Anno:
2014
Chissà se fu Luigi Malvezzi, con quella definizione di pittore di «secondo ordine», a segnare la sfortuna di Giovanni Ambrogio Besozzi..
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Andrea Pozzo nelle lettere di Giovanni Battista Barella a Livio Odescalchi: novità e precisazioni sulle commissioni (mancate) in San Sebastiano a Milano e in Palazzo Reale a Torino
digital

Anno:
2012
Andrea Pozzo in Giovanni Battista Barella’s letters to Livio
Odescalchi: clarifications and new discoveries on the (failed)
commissions for San Sebastiano in Milan and Turin’s Royal
Palace
The essay describes Andrea Pozzo’s early years in Rome (1681-1685),
according to the information found in a number of letters written
between December 10, 1681 and January 17, 1685 by Jesuit Giovanni
Battista Barella, a resident of the San Fedele convent in Milan, and
addressed to Livio Odescalchi, who had been convinced to settle in Rome
by his father Carlo and his uncle Benedetto, Pope Innocent XI since 1676.
These letters, kept in the Odescalchi Archive, currently part of the Archivio
di Stato in Rome, are just a small portion of a vast and interesting
correspondence – ranging between 1677 and 1686 and regretfully limited
to incoming letters – offering a lively perspective on Milanese society of
the time, a subject about which the recipient was particularly curious.
The letters regarding Andrea Pozzo are focused on Barella’s attempt –
prompted by the delegates of the Temple of San Sebastiano– to persuade
the artist to move back to Milan and decorate the cupola of the church,
as anticipated in a contract signed before the his departure in 1681. The
Jesuit Father seeks help from Livio, whose influence, however, would
eventually fail to convince the artist. The same unsuccessful result would
later be obtained by other requests from the Jesuits of Turin and Vittorio
Amedeo, Duke of Savoy, both aimed at persuading Pozzo to come to
Turin, respectively to complete the decoration for the church of Santi
Martiri and to work on one of the galleries of the Royal Palace.
€ 6,00
La collezione Erba Odescalchi: alcune precisazioni e una proposta attributiva
digital

Anno:
2011
The collection of Milanese Archbishop Benedetto Erba Odescalchi: condiserations on its client and its content, and a possible attribution EUGENIA BIANCHI The article analyzes the personality of Milanese Archbishop Benedetto Erba Odescalchi as a patron of the arts, focusing in particular on a series of portraits of canonized Archbishops of Milan – from St. Barnabas to St. Charles Borromeo – he commissioned after he was appointed to the Diocese of Milan in 1712, and subsequently donated to the Mensa Arcivescovile in 1737 (now at Milan, Museo Diocesano, fund of the Quadreria dell’Arcivescovado di Milano). A collection based on a single subject is distant from the criteria on which other similar assortments were gathered; the intention was to continue St Charles Borromeo’s work of defining a historically accountable tabula of canonized Archbishops of Milan, and establishing a convincing univocal iconography for each of them. As for the yet unsolved problem of attribution, a possible name is that of Milanese painter Francesco Fabbrica, whose attributed works show striking similarities. More specifically, the ovals with Mansuetus, Arsacius, Ausanus and Martinianus in the sacristy of Santo Stefano Maggiore in Milan (1707), and the canvases depicting The Madonna with St Bernardo Tolomei while handing the rule to St Frances of Rome and St Anne with the Child Virgin Mary and Sts Joachim and Francis of Paola, in the Milanese churches of San Vittore and Santa Maria del Paradiso respectively.
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Adolfo Venturi tra collezionismo e ricerca: un caso milanese
digital

Anno:
2010
Adolfo Venturi between collecting and scientific research:
a milanese case
EUGENIA BIANCHI
The previously unpublished documentation found among the
possessions of the heirs of a private collector gives a chance to
analyze Adolfo Venturi’s position towards the international antique
market and private collecting. During the considered period – the early
decades of the 20th Century – artworks from discontinued institutions
or dispersed collections formerly owned by the declining European
aristocracy were involved in an intense movement towards America.
The presence, among the found materials, of expert surveys signed by
Venturi, each subsequently published on the periodical L’Arte and the
more official Storia dell’arte italiana, generates further consideration
on the relationship between the market, scientific research and
criticism.
€ 6,00
News
10.03.2023
La sfida di una cultura digitale
Anteprima dal libro di Caio e Soldavini "Digitalizzazione. Per un nuovo rinascimento italiano", collana "Piccola biblioteca per un Paese normale".
28.02.2023
Ezio Franceschini, il rettore partigiano
In occasione dei 40 anni dalla morte, ricordiamo la storia di Ezio Franceschini, latinista, partigiano e rettore dell'Università Cattolica.
31.03.2023
Carlo Borgomeo a Palermo
Venerdì 31 marzo, alle 17:00 la presentazione di "Sud. Il capitale che serve" a Palazzo Branciforte.
14.10.2022
Scopri e partecipa alla Scuola di lettura
La seconda edizione della kermesse culturale Viva il lettore, rivolta agli studenti universitari e agli adulti.