RICORDO di LINDA PISANI
Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini
Il 26 gennaio 2018 ci ha purtroppo precocemente lasciati Linda Pisani, stroncata da un male terribile e incurabile. Storica e attivissima collaboratrice di “Predella”, membro da anni del Comitato scientifico, Linda è stata una colonna portante della rivista: a lei si deve tra l’altro l’ideazione e la curatela del primo numero monografico a stampa, nel 2010, dedicato all’arte a Pisa nel Trecento e intitolato Primitivi pisani fuori contesto.
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EDITORIALE / EDITORIAL
THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED ART HYSTORY? NO ITALIANS, PLEASE
Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini
A few years ago «The Burlington Magazine», the worlds’most renowned and influential journal of fine arts, dedicated a series of essays to «The Books that shaped Art History» in the XX century. Surprisingly, among the sixteen titles selected, not even one Italian monograph was considered. The scarcity of translations of Italian scholarship into English, and the inability of Italian culture, with few exceptions, to reach a level of international appeal, can partially explain, but not at all justify such a complete exclusion. Italian contribution to art history in the past century is unquestionably outstanding and deserves to be peremptorily claimed.
LE ARTI A PISA NEL PRIMO RINASCIMENTO / THE ARTS IN PISA DURING THE EARLY RENAISSANCE
Diane Cole Ahl
The Introduction analyzes the significance of the essays in this issue while underscoring the importance of Quattrocento Pisa as a catalyst for innovation and artistic exchange. It challenges the colonial conception of Florentine cultural domination by identifying the unique contributions of the city’s art and proposes new directions for further research.
