Vita e Pensiero

At least thirteen secular frescoes characterized by a red background, instead of a common blue one, have been preserved up to the present day in Lombardy. In this essay, alongside the best-known examples dated around the middle of 15th century, such as the Games cycle of Palazzo borromeo in Milan or the one at the Castello di Masnago (Varese), other frescoes from the beginning of the same century have been brought to light, which were never considered before for the background colour. these latter allow to backdate the spread of this pattern...

The paper aims at clarifying the attributions related to Pozzo di Loggio Valsolda’s paintings in the churches of the province of Cuneo. The goal is pursued by crossing the data that emerged from the most recent studies on the Lombard family with the ones found in the vast Piedmontese artistic bibliography...

This article proposes a partial addition to the catalog of the Cremonese painter Giovan battista trotti called il Malosso. A signed and dated painting by Malosso (Madonna of the Rosary with St. Dominique and St. Stephen, private collection) offers an opportunity to reflect on the artist’s creative processes, investigating his relationship with the workshop, with an approach that has characterized the recent monograph on the painter...