In the accounts of disaster of the early modern period, it seemed as though the heroes were missing, replaced by the anthropomorphic rage of the natural elements. Nevertheless, it did…
The expression Writing on Tombs used in the title of this book refers to all kind of texts involved in the making of a tomb during the Middle Ages and…
Early modern Florence and Naples were important cities at the nexus of global cultural, political and economic networks. Their multicultural urban sphere fostered international mobility and the spread of news…
Projected color saturates our world of images and screens, leading to a dissociation of color from material realities through its cultural attachment to light and the efflorescence of optics. Under…
This volume launches the book series of “Inquire – International Centre for Research on Inquisitions” of the University of Bologna, a research network that engages with the history of religious…
The book offers a new, historical and cultural reading of the personal collection of Post-Byzantine and medieval Russian paintings. The discovery, study and collection of medieval icons and early Italian…
Il volume esamina i metodi di ricerca e i contesti delle evidenze archeologiche riguardanti lo studio degli spettacoli di danza nelle società antiche; esso si propone di far luce sulla…
Until now, the problem of tuning instruments has been viewed as an aspect of philologically correct performance practice. Besides several chapters dealing with this important latter aspect, the volume also…
Quando il Passato può dirsi davvero passato? Anche da questa domanda e dalla relativa risposta trova la sua origine questo libro sui Re Tarquini di Roma. Ai fatti narrati da…
The Phillips Collection, which has always championed artists with creative originality and independence, is the perfect museum to organize the first American exhibition devoted to the nineteenth-century Italian painter Giuseppe…