Vita e Pensiero

This contribution analyzes a painting by Padovanino, a mythological subject, displayed in the art gallery of Palazzo Vertemate Franchi in Valchiavenna, a piece almost unknown up to today and ignored by the artist’s official bibliography...

Primo fascicolo del 2023

Theological interpretation of early Christian rituals in Northern Italy in the era of the Catholic reform and Lutheranism caused a deep reconsideration of the Feetwashing ritual, consciously re-orienting it toward a reflection of the Eucharistic sacrament within orthodoxy. this phenomenon had backlashes on the Catholic evangelising mission in areas disputed between the confessions, such as Northern Italy, especially the border regions of Lombardy and the Venetian republic...

The church of San Cristo in brescia houses one of the most interesting pictorial cycles of local Mannerism, painted in the sixties of the sixteenth century by the jesuat friar benedetto Marone. the examination of the biography and catalogue of the painter provides the profile of a wandering and eclectic artist, able to unify ideas resumed from the tuscan-roman school, Cremona and Venezia with brescia’s pictorial tradition; these features are confirmed by the dense succession of episodes shown within the decoration of San Cristo...

Pier Francesco Gianoli (1624-1690) was the heir of the Valsesian tradition and related to the poetics of the Sacri Monti. According to the Lombard inclination, towards the middle of the century, he integrates suggestions from Roman culture in his works...

This essay takes stock of the activity for Piacenza of Carlo Francesco and Giuseppe Nuvolone, two artists undoubtedly to be counted among the protagonists of painting for the churches and private collections of the city throughout much of the seventeenth century...

The lost Tower of Boethius in Pavia is mainly remembered because linked to the memory of Severinus Boethius’ imprisonment and for the well-known drawing by Giuliano da Sangallo contained in the Vatican codex Barberiniano Latino 4424 (f. 15v). In 1925, Faustino Gianani studied the events surrounding its history and the state of the art in an article published in the «Archivio Storico Lombardo»...

The fresco in the chapel of Saints Peter and Paul, in the church of the former female monastery of Meda, embodies style traits of the middle XVI century Cremonese art and of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone’s manner...