la scultura in funzione architettonica a costantinopoli tra v e vi secolo aspetti tecnici tipologici e stilistici

Data la complessità e l'ampiezza dell'argomento, s'intende proporre solo alcune riflessioni su quegli 'episodi' e quegli esempi, molti ben conosciuti e più volte analizzati, altri invece meno noti, i quali potranno meglio illustrare i momenti più significativi dello sviluppo della scultura architettonica costantinopolitana lungo un percorso che conduce alle straordinarie novità che si manifestano nei primi decenni del VI secolo. É un campo d'indagine assai vasto, che ha alimentato e continua ad alimentare una letteratura critica altrettanto ampia, ricca di saggi e contributi, con approcci e chiavi di lettura variamente declinati, ma che alla somma dei fatti, si rivelano proficuamente complementari

La corrispondenza epistolare come rete di conoscenza, dibattito e azione. Le riflessioni sulle arti e sulla tutela di Philip Webb, Giacomo Boni e John Ruskin

Taking as reference point the figure of John Ruskin, we intend to explore in this paper the relationship between two interesting personalities of the European artistic world at the end of the 19thcentury, Philip Webb and Giacomo Boni. Through the correspondence of these scholars held in Italian and British Archives, we consider here a variety of topics concerning the political heritage, literary and art-historical debates in modern Europe. In particular the epistolary reports and archival documentation, relating to the inspections upon monuments carried out by Boni throughout the Italian territory, reveal a sympathetic reception of the Ruskinian theories and indications concerning restoration, albeit with an application ‘tempered’ by the need to realize concrete and effective solutions respecting and safeguarding a monument

From Ravenna to Athens: Italian Restorers of the Mosaic of Daphni at the End of the 19th Century

During the last two decades of the nineteenth century the church of Daphni met a large number of changes: transformed into a museum after a period in which it was used as mental hospital, badly damaged by serious earthquakes in 1886 and 1889, the monastery in this period underwent a series of restorations. Thanks to the careful surveys carried out in those years by Greek and foreign scholars such as Georgios Lampakis, Gabriel Millet, Sidney Barnsley and Robert Weir Schultz, we are able to follow in some detail the development of the restoration works. Exceedingly useful also are some photographs, part of them published, that show the state of health of the mosaics before and after the interventions of the restorers. Definitively less known is otherwise the contribution of some Italian mosaicists (Giuseppe Bonanno Zuccaro, Carlo Novelli, Francesco Novo) that the Greek government called to work in the Daphni workshop. Some unpublished documents kept in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome throw light on these mosaic workers, whose education had been accomplished upon the scaffoldings of the churches of Ravenna and Venice. In this contribution particular attention will be paid to Carlo Novelli, a painter and mosaicist sent from Ravenna to Athens in the first months of 1889, that left us a lot of very detailed reports about the conservative condition of the mosaics of Daphni. This first hand information will be compared with contemporary textual, graphic and photographic sources, in order to ascertain the extent of the restorations and the working methods of the mosaicists involved in the restoration campaigns

Nuovi dati sulle pavimentazioni della chiesa di S. Stefano a Due Carrare (Padova)

Alcuni documenti inediti, relativi ai restauri condotti nella chiesa di S. Stefano a Due Carrare (Padova) negli ultimi decenni del 19° secolo. offrono l'opportunità di riprendere lo studio dei pavimenti in marmo e a mosaico della chiesa e gettano luce sui differenti e talvolta contrastanti criteri che venivano adottati in quegli anni nel restauro dei monumenti