One year with 'Letteratura artistica':
who we are, what we published, and who are our readers
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| Piero della Francesca, The Montefeltro Altarpiece, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
This blog is one year old on 15 November 2014. One
year is a time long enough to take stock: we
published over 160 between research pieces and reviews (always both in Italian
and English); more than 80,000 page have been visited by a community of
loyal readers spread all over the world.
The blog is basically run by myself (Giovanni Mazzaferro)
and my brother, Francesco, and was born leveraging on a private collection of texts
on sources of art history (about 2,000 volumes).
When we started we had in mind a few
guidelines. Here they are:
- To be different. This is not a normal magazine dedicated to art (several people make it better than we do). Here we produce research and reviews related to the sources for art history. We have identified a niche and we occupied it.
- To use a lay language. I do not know if we have succeeded; but the idea is that everyone has the right to understand what we write.
- To give an international taste to this blog, not only by publishing together an Italian and an English version, but in the choice of topics, in the research of cultural links, traces and influences. Here we can say we have already succeeded. In the last month (source: Google Analytics) we had consultations from 57 different countries.
The public reading us is strongly
characterized: it is made up of women by 68% and of men by 32%. It is basically
made of history of art enthusiasts, teachers, scholars and artists. The age
group most represented is between 25 and 44 years.
To all of you we are saying thank with a small
gift: we created an index of posts, broken down by (current) country to which
they refer. Within each nation we followed a chronological order of publication
or compilation. We hope that the index will help you browse and find
interesting materials.
ARGENTINA
AUSTRIA
CHINA
FRANCE
Christian Michel, Le voyage d'Italie de Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1758) (review by Giovanni Mazzaferro).
Paul Wescher. I furti d'arte. Napoleone e la nascita del Louvre (with a review by Francesco Frangi).
GERMANY
Albrecht Dürer, Institutiones geometricae - Cosimo Bartoli, I geometrici elementi di Alberto Durero (review by Giovanni Mazzaferro)
GREAT BRITAIN
Susanna Avery-Quash. In cerca di quadri per la National Gallery: gusto e collezionismo nelle scelte di Charles Lock Eastlake
GREECE
ITALY
Francesco Albertini. Memoriale di molte statue et picture... a Firenze (1510) (review by Giovanni Mazzaferro).
Vitruvius. The Book of Architecture. The Corsini Incunabulum with the annotations and autograph drawings of Giovanni Battista da Sangallo (review by Giovanni Mazzaferro)
Galileo and Ludovico Cigoli: Moon and Sunspots between Science and Art (review by Giovanni Mazzaferro).
Luciano Mazzaferro. Giovan Battista Marino: artistic interests between Court life and art collecting
Claire Farago (edited by). Re-Reading Leonardo. The Treatise on Painting across Europe, 1550-1900 (review by Giovanni Mazzaferro).
Giovanni Michele Silos. Pinacotheca sive Romana Pictura et Sculptura (review by Luciano Mazzaferro).
Brian Tovey (a cura di), The Pouncey Index of Baldinucci's 'Notizie' (review by Giovanni Mazzaferro)
NETHERLANDS
Karel van Mander. Le vite degli illustri pittori fiamminghi, olandesi e tedeschi. A cura di Ricardo de Mambro Santos (with a review by Marco Carminati)
POLAND
RUSSIA
SPAIN
Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolas. Arte y Uso de Architectura. Edición anotada. A cura di Félix Díaz Moreno (review by Giovanni Mazzaferro)
TURKEY
Maria Luigia Fobelli. Un tempio per Giustiniano. Santa Sofia di Costantinopoli e la 'Descrizione' di Paolo Silenziario (with a review by Cinzia Dal Maso),
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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