Intorno a Giotto: una mostra, un libro e una proposta di attribuzione

• Autores: Angelo Tartuferi
• Localización: Commentari d'arte: rivista di critica e storia dell'arte, Vol. 19-20, Nº. 56-57, 2013-2014, págs. 26-38
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • This article starts from the fine exhibition dedicated to the memory of Luciano Bellosi and Miklós Boskovits, held in the old chapel of the former palace of the kings of France, at the Louvre in Paris (April – july 2013). The author examines the most important critical themes dealt with in the exhibition catalogue and suggests, among other things, attributing to the Master of San Martino alla Palma’s early period two unpublished panels of the polyptych, in the centre of wich there was possibly the Madonna and Child by the above-mentioned painter, now in the Sao Paulo Museum of Art. He then comments on the critical apparatus in the volume by Erling Skaug, entitled Giotto and the Flood of Florence in 1333. A Study in Catastrophism, Guild Organisation and Art Technology, which arouses some perplexity, especially as regards the umpteenth suggestion that the study of the punched decorations in 14th century paintings should be seen as an autonomous and alternative approach, as a tribute to an illusory and inconclusive desire for a history of art consisting of “certain and measurable” data. This contribution concludes with a commentary on third publication on Giotto, the stimulating volume full of critical insights by A.G. De Marchi, Revelations, Discoveries and Rediscoveries in Italian Primitive Art, in which the author suggests, among other things, assigning to Giotto an unpublished and fragmentary Our Lady of Sorrows, which should be attributed to the Master of Saint Cecilia.