EDITORIALE / EDITORIAL
MUSEI E IDENTITÀ, UN INTRECCIO DIFFICILE
Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini
The identity of museums is more and more a critical issue nowadays: new museums are raising everywhere, from the Arabian peninsula to Eastern Asia, not to say of "exotic" offshore seats created by the best known "brand" museums such as the Louvre and the Guggenheim. Traditional museums compete with contemporary exhibition sites (usually designed by star architects); national ambitions and international vocations co-exist, often dialectically and problematically interweaving..
THE «DISCOVERY» OF THE TRECENTO IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY. INTRODUCTION
Louise Bourdua
«Discovering the Trecento in the Nineteenth Century», began as a conference. The first part took place in London in March 2013 at the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection; the second part took place in November that year in Venice, where it was hosted by the departments of Storia dell'Arte (Università Ca' Foscari and Università IUAV) and the University of Warwick. The events were sponsored by the National Gallery, the Wallace Collection, the Seminar for Collecting and Display and IESA, with additional funding from a patron of the National Gallery.
