Miniature rinascimentali riprodotte nel XIX secolo. Gaetano Milanesi, Carlo Pini e Giovanni Rosini: dai calchi grafici alle stampe di traduzione

• Autores: Ada Labriola
• Localización: Rivista di storia della miniatura, ISSN 1126-4772, Nº. 20, 2016, págs. 155-169
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Renaissance illuminations reproduces in the 19th century. Gaetano Milanesi, Carlo Pini and Giovanni Rosini: from tracings to reproductive prints.

    In 1826-1857 an important edition of Giorgio Vasari's "Lives" was published in Florence, edited by a "Società di Amatori delle Arti Belle" (Carlo and Gaetano Milanesi, Carlo Pini, Vicenzo Marchese). The sixth volume (1850) included a long "Commentary" focused on Central Italian illumination of the 15th-16th centuries. The most prominent role in the preparation of the "Commentary" was carried on by Gaetano Milanesi and Carlo Pini. The two Sienese scholars established a new critical approach to the study of illuminated manuscripts, based on the direct recognition of these works and the discovery of unpublished documents from the archives. The genesis of their research on Renaissance illumination can be outlined through the correspondence of Gaetano Milanesi, preserved in the Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati in Siena. Artistic personalities and precious manuscripts were recognized for the first time. One of the most important discoveries was the "Liber fraternitatis" dated 1494 by the Florentine illuminator Littifredi Corbizi (Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, X. V.3). The two scholars commissioned tracings executed directly on the illuminations of this manuscript with the help of transparent paper. The tracings were made by Cristiano Banti, who at the time was a brilliant student of the Istituto di Belle Arti in Siena and later become one of the protagonisnts of the Macchiaioli movement in Florence. Tracings and drawings were also executed by Carlo Pini himself, who copied illuminations from some 15th century choral books in the Biblioteca Comunale and in the Libreria Piccolomini in the Duomo of Siena. His copies were etched and used to illustrate important books, such as Giovanni Rosini's "Storia della Pittura Italiana". Banti's tracings and Pini's copies are here published for the first time.