Founded in 1947 under the presidency of Giuseppe Fiocco and the scholarly direction of Rodolfo Pallucchini, Arte Veneta has become over time one of the most important specialist publications in art history.
This issue opens, for the medieval context, with Elena Khalaf’s contribution devoted to Paolo Veneziano’s famous polyptych with the Coronation of the Virgin in the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, with new theories concerning the purpose and patronage of the work; followed by the themes of the Renaissance area treated by Laura Zabeo, with the presentation of an unpublished notebook of drawings by the Venetian school preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: a numismatic sylloge that attests to the existence of model books devoted to numismatic iconography at a very early time compared to the first printed publications of the 16th century; by Emanuele Castoldi, with an important study in depth of the painted ceiling of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Murano and its principal artist, Nicolò Rondinelli, and by Vincenzo Mancini, who reconstructs, with innovative interpretations, the pictorial output of Domenico Campagnola.
There is also, for the late Cinquecento, a contribution by Marco Toffanin devoted to the “great tondo” that dominates the ceiling of the nave of the Venetian church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, originating from the discovery of the signature of Francesco Montemezzano and the date 1585.
The volume continues with interesting essays on the eighteenth-century by Paolo Delorenzi, Sebastiano Megera and Enrico Lucchese. The essays section closes with a contribution by Valeria Paruzzo, who reconstructs the biography of Clemente Bordato and his little-known activity as a collector in the context of the Venetian petite bourgeoisie under the Habsburg domination. This is followed by the section of Reports with original finds, and at the end, some contributions for the Archival Papers.
All the contributions are richly illustrated.
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