Books by manuela ritondale
PhD Thesis, 2022
This thesis presents a GIS-based methodology to assess the shipwrecking probability in Mediterran... more This thesis presents a GIS-based methodology to assess the shipwrecking probability in Mediterranean territorial waters. The study focuses on two scales of analysis to meet the need for a general tool applicable to spatial planning and a more detailed one providing insights for historical and archaeological research. Two sub-questions are addressed for identifying high shipwrecking probability areas: 1. Where would ships be more likely to transit? 2. Where would ships have a higher risk of sinking? Transit probabilities are derived by considering multiple, oftentimes competing criteria that affect mariners’ movements, including the effects of risk perception, thus rejecting the idea that sailors would necessarily choose optimal routes. The sinking probabilities include environmental hazards objectively increasing the risk of shipwrecking.
The overall methodology overcomes some of the main pitfalls of current modelling approaches, namely, the inductive use of shipwreck data without a formal exploration of data biases, the predominant reliance on environmental and economic input variables to the detriment of cultural and cognitive factors, and the unheeded effects of uncertainty and subjective reasoning behind the model building. This study suggests that by explicitly differentiating between actual and perceived risks and accounting for the effects this difference produces in terms of variations from the optimal routes, the predictive ability of the model increases. This model, unique hitherto in the Mediterranean basin, constitutes a valuable tool for optimising maritime spatial planning; it provides an adaptable toolkit applicable to other geographical contexts and chronological periods and a suitable basis for expansion with additional components.
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Journal of Greek Archaeology, 2018
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Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal
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Assemblage, 2014
Since 2008 the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of Lazio (on behalf of the Ministry of Cultur... more Since 2008 the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of Lazio (on behalf of the Ministry of Culture) has cooperated with AURORA Trust, an international not-for-profit organisation, in the field of underwater archaeology, to carry out an extensive survey of the seabed surrounding the islands of Ventotene, Santo Stefano and Zannone, out to the 150m contour, in order to create an archaeological map of the seabed of the Pontine Islands. Research was conducted using a Klein System 3900 side scan sonar, Klein 3310 sub bottom profiler, and Seaeye Falcon ROV. After three seasons, nine ancient shipwrecks were found, dating back to different phases of the Roman period. All wrecks were well preserved with cargoes of amphorae found still stacked in their original position. The study of these nine wrecks and their cargo is currently on-going. Further, the Superintendence is planning to install cameras on the sites to allow for simultaneous monitoring and accessibility. These important discoveries...
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Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal , 2019
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools... more Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potential for furthering our understanding of the past phenomena explored in Roman Studies. We argue complexity science and formal modelling have great potential for Roman Studies by offering four key advantages: (1) the ability to deal with emergent properties in complex Roman systems ; (2) the means to formally specify theories about past Roman phenomena; (3) the power to test aspects of these theories as hypotheses using formal modelling approaches; and (4) the capacity to do all of this in a transparent, reproducible, and cumulative scientific framework. We present a ten-point manifesto that articulates arguments for the more common use in Roman Studies of perspectives, concepts and tools from the broader field of complexity science, which are complementary to empirical inductive approaches. There will be a need for constant constructive collaboration between Romanists with diverse fields of expertise in order to usefully embed complexity science and formal modelling in Roman Studies.
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Predella, Journal of visual arts, 2016
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The overall methodology overcomes some of the main pitfalls of current modelling approaches, namely, the inductive use of shipwreck data without a formal exploration of data biases, the predominant reliance on environmental and economic input variables to the detriment of cultural and cognitive factors, and the unheeded effects of uncertainty and subjective reasoning behind the model building. This study suggests that by explicitly differentiating between actual and perceived risks and accounting for the effects this difference produces in terms of variations from the optimal routes, the predictive ability of the model increases. This model, unique hitherto in the Mediterranean basin, constitutes a valuable tool for optimising maritime spatial planning; it provides an adaptable toolkit applicable to other geographical contexts and chronological periods and a suitable basis for expansion with additional components.
Papers by manuela ritondale
Book Reviews by manuela ritondale
Presentations by manuela ritondale
The overall methodology overcomes some of the main pitfalls of current modelling approaches, namely, the inductive use of shipwreck data without a formal exploration of data biases, the predominant reliance on environmental and economic input variables to the detriment of cultural and cognitive factors, and the unheeded effects of uncertainty and subjective reasoning behind the model building. This study suggests that by explicitly differentiating between actual and perceived risks and accounting for the effects this difference produces in terms of variations from the optimal routes, the predictive ability of the model increases. This model, unique hitherto in the Mediterranean basin, constitutes a valuable tool for optimising maritime spatial planning; it provides an adaptable toolkit applicable to other geographical contexts and chronological periods and a suitable basis for expansion with additional components.
EDITORIALE
Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini
The Books that shaped Art History? No Italians, please
MONOGRAFIA/MONOGRAPH
LE ARTI A PISA NEL PRIMO RINASCIMENTO /THE ARTS IN PISA DURING THE EARLY RENAISSANCE
Diane COLE AHL
Introduction
Gail E. SOLBERG
Pisa as a Center of Tuscan Painting in the 1390s: The Case of Taddeo di Bartolo
Gabriele FATTORINI
Giovanni di Pietro da Napoli e Martino di Bartolomeo in “compagnia” nella Pisa di primo Quattrocento (con un accenno alle tele che fingevano affreschi)
Marco MASCOLO
Pittura tra Pisa e Lucca al Principio del Quattrocento: alcuni casi dello stile ‘Gotico Internazionale’
Clario DI FABIO
Giovanni di Pietro, un pittore pisano a Genova nel primo Quattrocento. Approfondimenti, inediti e questioni di contesto
Anthony M. CUMMINGS
Godi, Firenze:The Florentine Conquest of Pisa Celebrated in Song
Marco FRATI
Il secolo breve di Pisa. L’architettura durante la prima occupazione fiorentina (1406-1494) fra tradizione e innovazione
Linda PISANI
Ricerche sull’iconografia del polittico pisano di Masaccio
Christa GARDNER VON TEUFFEL
Locating Albert: The first Carmelite Saint in the works of Taddeo di Bartolo, Lippo di Andrea, Masaccio and others
Gabriele DONATI
San Ranieri in America. Due oreficerie di metà Quattrocento fra New York e Pisa
Claudio CASINI
L’angelo che non volò.Una scultura non realizzata per il nuovo arredo presbiteriale del Duomo di Pisa al tempo dell’arcivescovo Filippo de’ Medici
Jean K. CADOGAN
Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippo de' Medici and the Old Testament Murals in the Camposanto in Pisa (1468-1484)
Luigi LAZZERINI
Benozzo Gozzoli e la Fraternita dei fiorentini di Pisa
Sarah M. CADAGIN
Domenico Ghirlandaio and his Workshop in Pisa: Panel Paintings for the Gesuati
Caterina BAY
La storia di Pafnuzio e Onofrio in una tavola del Museo Nazionale di San Matteo
Pierluigi NIERI
Il restauro del Redentore benedicentedel Beato Angelico al Museo Nazionale di San Matteo a Pisa: dati diagnostici, tecnici e materiali
Gerardo DE SIMONE
Tra decadenza e Rinascenza: spigolature sul Quattrocento a Pisa
MISCELLANEA/MISCELLANY
FIGURE
Maria Luisa CATONI
Stylization of the body and embodied values in Classical Antiquity
Cinzia NICOLINI
Note sulla committenza del “Regno di Pan” di Luca Signorelli
Luke UGLOW
Observations on Crowe and Cavalcaselle and their analysis of Giorgione
CORNICE
Federica VERATELLI
Antonio Morassi life and method in the mirror of his Photo Archive.Rethinking Art Historical Photographic Collections. The makings of Italian fototeche
Gemma TORRE
Dissemination of picture copies through different archives: the visual power of Cesare Battisti’s death
Silvia BOTTINELLI
Protecting Creativity and Research through Fair Use. An Art Historian’s Reflections on the Unsustainable Costs of Image Reproduction Fees
CUSPIDE
Gigetta DALLI REGOLI
Malinconia di Giuseppe: l’avventura figurativa del santo fra tardo Medioevo e Rinascimento
IN MOSTRA
Lucia COLLAVO
La mia arma contro l’atomica è un filo d’erba. Tancredi. Una retrospettiva. Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venezia
IN LIBRERIA
Sara MENATO
Cecilia Vicentini, La collezione Calcagnini d’Este. Una famiglia e le sue raccolte fra Ferrara e Roma
Vlad IONESCU
From nothing, from an ‘idea’: Barbara Baert’s iconology of immersions and transitions
Annamaria DUCCI
Pierre Leveau, L'institution de la conservation du patrimoine culturel dans l'Entre-Deux-Guerres
Manuela RITONDALE
Peggy Levitt,Artifacts and allegiances. How museums put the nation and the world on display