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| Rivista di Storia dell'Arte | |
|---|---|
| Title | Rivista di Storia dell'Arte |
| Discipline | Art history |
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher | [publisher name] |
| Country | Italy |
| History | 19XX–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | [ISSN] |
Rivista di Storia dell'Arte is a scholarly Italian journal dedicated to the study of art history with an emphasis on European and Mediterranean visual culture. Founded in the 20th century, the journal has published monographic studies, archival discoveries, and theoretical essays engaging with artists, patrons, monuments, and institutions from antiquity to the modern era. Contributors include historians working on subjects such as Giotto di Bondone, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, and other major figures across Italian and European traditions.
The journal emerged amid historiographical debates alongside publications like Rassegna d'arte, Paragone, and Bollettino d'arte, reflecting renewed interest in Renaissance studies, Baroque research, and preservation after the World War II destruction of cultural heritage sites such as Florence Cathedral and the Basilica di San Marco. Early issues contained archival reports drawing on collections in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, the Vatican Library, and the archives of the Accademia di San Luca. Over decades the periodical documented conservation campaigns at sites including Palazzo Vecchio, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Uffizi Gallery, and published primary documents related to patrons like Lorenzo de' Medici, Pope Julius II, and Cosimo I de' Medici.
The journal's scope covers object-based studies of paintings, sculpture, architecture, illuminated manuscripts, and decorative arts, engaging with figures such as Donatello, Andrea Palladio, Sandro Botticelli, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Rembrandt van Rijn. It situates material culture within networks of patronage involving houses like the Medici family, the Sforza family, and institutions such as the Holy See and the Kingdom of Naples. The editorial focus balances connoisseurship and archival work with methods inspired by scholars from the Warburg Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, addressing iconography linked to texts by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, and Baldassare Castiglione. The journal also examines influences between regions—Venetian contacts with Istanbul, Spanish commissions tied to Philip II of Spain, and Flemish exchanges with Mantua—and features studies on restoration philosophies associated with figures like Cesare Brandi.
Published in Italy on a regular schedule, the periodical appears in print with thematic issues and special supplements focusing on conferences held at institutions such as the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Università di Pisa, and the Università di Roma "La Sapienza". Issues include long-form research articles, critical notes, archival transcriptions from repositories like the Archivio di Stato di Venezia, and exhibition dossiers related to shows at the Palazzo Pitti, the Galleria Borghese, and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello. Occasional bilingual essays engage an international readership and intersect with catalogues raisonnés produced for artists like Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna.
Editorial leadership has included scholars affiliated with major Italian and European universities and museums, drawing upon expertise from the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, the Museo Nazionale del Prado, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Board members have represented departments at the Università di Milano, the Università di Bologna, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and research centers such as the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Guest editors have coordinated special issues on topics ranging from the ethics of conservation championed by Cesare Brandi to rediscoveries of works by Giovanni Bellini and Pinturicchio.
The journal has published influential studies that reshaped understanding of commissions by patrons like Isabella d'Este, reinterpretations of workshop practices linked to Workshop of Paolo Veronese, and documentary revelations about artists including Carlo Crivelli and Parmigianino. Notable contributions have traced iconographic programs in chapels associated with Theodoric of York or examined sculptural cycles at sites such as Sant'Andrea della Valle and Santa Maria del Fiore. Essays have reassessed attributions involving Giorgione, debated provenance questions concerning collections dispersals after the Napoleonic Wars, and advanced technical art history through pigment analyses that reference laboratories at the CNR and conservation reports from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
The periodical is indexed in major humanities databases and cited in monographs and exhibition catalogues published by presses including Electa, Marsilio Editori, and Skira. Its reception among scholars is evidenced by citations in works on Renaissance architecture, Baroque sculpture, and museum studies, and by its role in conferences organized by the International Congress of Art History and national meetings of the Società Italiana di Storia dell'Arte. Reviews in journals such as The Burlington Magazine, Art Bulletin, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte reflect engagement across anglophone, francophone, and germanophone scholarship, while its archives support doctoral research at institutions like the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Category:Italian art history journals