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The Life of the works
Art history
Éditions Macula
2024
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Dedicated to the Life of works, issue 19 of Studiolo engages in a critical reflection on the "living" and "changing" nature of works of art, as well as the relationships and discourses that are constantly evolving around them throughout their biography.
Artists, collectors, art historians, and museum curators are continually confronted with the crucial question of the metamorphoses of artworks. From the moment of their completion, works undergo an infinite number of transformations, determined both by internal factors related to their materiality (durability, alteration, deterioration, erasure, crumbling...) and by external factors (accidents, vandalism, censorship, fragmentation, dispersion, loss of original context, restoration...), all of which can profoundly alter the perception and understanding we have of them.
What do we see when we consider a work? How does it testify to or reveal its own history? To what extent can changes over time be perceived by the viewer at a given moment, and are they capable of reconfiguring objects within new aesthetic, semantic, and social frameworks? How is this question addressed by the discipline of art history, conservation, restoration, and more broadly by the humanities and heritage sciences?
Each issue of the journal Studiolo includes a thematic dossier, varia, a section of critical perspectives dedicated to historiography, and in the art history section at the Villa Medici, an update on the activities of the art history department and restoration projects of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici. Finally, open space invites contributions from the current year's resident artists.
248 pages - 134 color illustrations - 24 black and white illustrations
23 x 31 cm
ISBN: 978-2-86589-161-0
ISSN: 1635-0871
Francesca Alberti and Sam Stourdzé
10 THE LIFE OF WORKS
Francesca Alberti and Sébastien Allard
12 17TH-CENTURY BIOGRAPHY OF THE CHIGI CHAPEL IN SANTA MARIA DELLA PACE
Bruno Carabellese
30 FARNESINA REDIVIVA. MEMORIES AND RECREATIONS OF AGOSTINO CHIGI’S ROMAN VILLA
James Grantham Turner
54 CORREGGIO’S TAVOLA GUASTA: THE LIFE OF THE MADONNA OF SAINT SEBASTIAN
Helen Kohn and Elisabeth Schlesinger
68 TRIUMPHS & LAMENTS OF WILLIAM KENTRIDGE. A MONUMENT TO THE EPHEMERAL
Paul Bernard-Nouraud
88 THE LOST PARADISE: CRISTOFORO RONCALLI AND THE CHAPEL DELLA VALLE (1584-1586)
Marta Battisti
106 REFASHIONING AMBIGUITY, HOMOSOCIALITY, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY. ENZO CUCCHI’S ARTISTIC TRAJECTORY IN WEST GERMANY AROUND 1980
Maria Bremer
118 THE VESUVIAN PLATES OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA (1768). AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF VOLCANOES IN THE 18TH CENTURY BETWEEN NAPLES AND FRANCE
Domenico Laurenza
134 “MACHINES” OF REPRESENTATION: THE SPECTACLES OF SERVANDONI AND VAUCANSON IN PARIS IN SPRING 1738
Camilla Pietrabissa
152 THE MODERNITY OF FIVE MASTERS OF THE FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE EYES OF THE 1920S AND 1930S
Ana Redondo Plaza
170 THE EXHIBITION ELLES@CENTREPOMPIDOU: AN INSTITUTIONAL CURATORIAL RESPONSE TO THE CHALLENGE OF GENDER EQUALITY
Dorothée Dupuis
184 INNER STORIES (EXCERPT)
Noémie Goddard
190 WHEN HERMES MOCKED TERMINUS
Sarah Vanuxem
196 A ROMANTIC ORIENTALISM. THE TURKISH ROOM OF HORACE VERNET AT VILLA MÉDICIS
Ariane Varela Braga
212 EX PLURIBUS UNUM OR THE INCORPORATION OF THE STATE. FERDINAND DE MÉDICIS AND THE PETRIFICATION OF THE FATHER
Antonella Fenech
224 GENEALOGY OF AN ATTRIBUTION: THE SCHOLARS OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY IN ROME AND THE COPIES OF THE CARRACCI GALLERY FOR THE TUILERIES PALACE
Vincenzo Mancuso
230 NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY