- Art History, History of architecture, Iconology, Cultural Heritage, Architectural History, Cultural Heritage Conservation, and 56 moreArchitectural preservation, History (Architecture), Restauration and Conservation, Architectural Heritage, Early Modern England, Renaissance Florence, Giorgio Vasari, Ancient marble quarries, Firenze, Ancient Roman Marbles, Brunelleschi, Architectural Theory, Design Process (Architecture), Michelangelo Buonarroti, Old Master drawings, Andrea Palladio, San Carlos Borromeo, Architettura Moderna, proportions and Harmony in architecture, Vitruvio, Roman Architecture, Roman Archaeology, Baroque art and architecture, Italian Renaissance Architectural History, Patronage (History), Renaissance Studies, Architecture in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Renaissance and Baroque Architectural Drawings, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Architectural Drawing, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Italian Renaissance Art, Storia Dell'Architettura, Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Art, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Renaissance Art, Leon Battista Alberti, History of Collecting, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Leone Leoni, Reception of Antiquity, STORIA DELL'ARTE, Disegno Dell'Architettura, History of Sculpture, Rinascimento, Collecting and Collections, Renaissance Rome, Historiography (in Art History), Italian Baroque art, Vitruvius, Drawings (Architecture), Perino Del Vaga, Paper Models, Massa Carrara Rome Marble Seicento Sculptors, coloured marbles, and Biologyedit
- Giovanni Santucci si è formato presso l'Università di Pisa e la Scuola Normale Superiore. Ha approfondito il tema del... moreGiovanni Santucci si è formato presso l'Università di Pisa e la Scuola Normale Superiore. Ha approfondito il tema del collezionismo di disegni di architettura in Italia e Inghilterra tra XVI e XVIII secolo e ha condotto ricerche su vari aspetti della storia delle tecniche costruttive, della grafica progettuale e delle relazioni tra disegni e modelli tridimensionali, particolarmente sull'uso di modelli di carta da parte di Baldassarre Peruzzi, Federigo Brandani, e molti altri architetti italiani del XVI e del XVII secolo. Ha goduto del sostegno di diverse borse di studio, fra cui un Research Grant del Mellon Center for Studies in British Art (2009) e il Francis Haskell Memorial Fund (2011), ha pubblicato su riviste internazionali e volumi collettanei e ha parlato a convegni nazionali e internazionali. Nel 2016 ha conseguito il Dottorato presso l'Università di Pisa con una tesi sui disegni della collezione di William e John Talman custoditi presso l'Ashmolean Museum di Oxford e sullo studio della formazione e organizzazione degli album di disegni della stessa raccolta. Nello stesso anno ha ottenuto la Borsa di Alti Studi per l’Arte e la Cultura del Barocco della Fondazione 1563, grazie alla quale ha pubblicato uno studio monografico sul ruolo del collezionismo di disegni italiani per la diffusione di un gusto barocco nell’architettura e nella decorazione inglesi del tempo degli ultimi Stuart. Da tempo conduce anche ricerche volte a precisare il contributo di Robert Dudley e dei suoi discendenti nei contatti e negli scambi culturali tra l’Inghilterra degli Stuart e la Toscana dei Medici. È attualmente assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Eccellenza – Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere dell’Università di Pisa con un progetto su questo stesso tema.edit
L’articolo affronta le proposte avanzate da Baldassarre Peruzzi per la cattedrale di Siena, sia prima sia durante il suo incarico di architetto dell’Opera. Per la prima volta sono presi in considerazione in uno studio unitario tutti i... more
L’articolo affronta le proposte avanzate da Baldassarre Peruzzi per la cattedrale di Siena, sia prima sia durante il suo incarico di architetto dell’Opera. Per la prima volta sono presi in considerazione in uno studio unitario tutti i disegni per opere di arredo e di decorazione destinate all’edificio esistente e gli studi volti a permettere il completamento del "Duomo nuovo". L’articolo affronta i progetti redatti da Peruzzi nel contesto storico e sociale della Siena del tempo e in relazione alle personalità preposte alla realizzazione delle opere in cattedrale, discutendone quindi una pluralità di aspetti iconografici e stilistici al fine di chiarire quali siano stati gli elementi di continuità e di rottura delle proposte di Peruzzi rispetto alle strutture della cattedrale e alle più significative opere medievali e quattrocentesche in essa conservate. In relazione ai disegni per il Duomo nuovo, all’indagine critica delle proposte si accompagnano anche ipotesi di ricostruzione basate su un intreccio di dati metrici ricavabili dai disegni stessi e dai rilievi delle strutture con le quali essi erano destinati a integrarsi.
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Research Interests: Military History, Strategy (Military Science), Military and Politics, Manuscripts, Shipbuilding, and 12 moreLivorno, Tuscany and England, Leghorn, Merchant Shipping/Maritime Economics/shipbuilding/Mediterranean/Shipowners/Maritime Trade, Ancient Shipbuilding, Shipbuilding and Maritime Technology History, Tuscany XVIIth-XVIIIth Century, History of Tuscany, Fronte bastionato all'Italiana, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, bastion fortifications, and Robert Dudley, Duca di Nortumbria
The construction of the Molo Cosimo, the most important port infrastructure in Livorno during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, played a decisive role in allowing the expansion of maritime traffic between the powerful mercantile... more
The construction of the Molo Cosimo, the most important port infrastructure in Livorno during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, played a decisive role in allowing the expansion of maritime traffic between the powerful mercantile economies of Northern Europe and Medici Tuscany. Less than thirty years after the works were finished, Robert Dudley
“Duke of Nortumbria” proudly claimed to be the “inventore” of the pier in his famous nautical work Dell’Arcano del Mare. However, his statement was repeatedly challenged in later historical narratives on Livorno and its port, as some historians have favoured the role of different architects and engineers. Through the screening and comparison of evidence drawn
from published and unpublished documents and drawings, the essay offers new elements on the history of the Molo Cosimo and investigates Robert Dudley’s real responsibilities with respect to the design of this great infrastructure and of its appurtenances.
“Duke of Nortumbria” proudly claimed to be the “inventore” of the pier in his famous nautical work Dell’Arcano del Mare. However, his statement was repeatedly challenged in later historical narratives on Livorno and its port, as some historians have favoured the role of different architects and engineers. Through the screening and comparison of evidence drawn
from published and unpublished documents and drawings, the essay offers new elements on the history of the Molo Cosimo and investigates Robert Dudley’s real responsibilities with respect to the design of this great infrastructure and of its appurtenances.
Research Interests: Mediterranean, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Sea ports, Livorno, Tuscany and England, and 6 moreTrade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Tuscany Archteture, Merchant Shipping/Maritime Economics/shipbuilding/Mediterranean/Shipowners/Maritime Trade, Tuscany XVIIth-XVIIIth Century, History of Tuscany, and Grand Duchy of Tuscany
In this contribution we demonstrate, on the basis of written and visual documents, that no later than 1638 the Medici were in possession of a large Mughal painting depicting the emperor Jahangir on a larger-than-life scale, very similar... more
In this contribution we demonstrate, on the basis of written and visual documents, that no later than 1638 the Medici were in possession of a large Mughal painting depicting the emperor Jahangir on a larger-than-life scale, very similar but not identical to one auctioned in 1995 by Sotheby's and in 2011 by Bohnams and the subject of numerous studies in recent years. We trace the history of the painting in the Medici collections up to its destruction in the Uffizi fire of 1762 and develop hypotheses on how and when it arrived in Florence. We reconstruct its formal characteristics as far as possible; finally, we attempt to outline a credible scenario for the creation in the ateliers of the Mughal court of a type of portrait painting so unusual in a South Asian context.
Research Interests: Early Modern Europe, 17th-Century Studies, Mughal History, History of Florence, History of Art, and 13 moreEarly modern cross-cultural encounters, History of Collecting, Mughal India, Mughal painting, Livorno, Tuscany and England, Athanasius Kircher, Mughal Emperor Jahangir, Tuscany XVIIth-XVIIIth Century, Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence, History of Tuscany, Early Modern Globalization, and Grand Duchy of Tuscany
La tesi si propone come un catalogo completo dei disegni miscellanei accolti all'interno di tre album appartenuti alla collezione di William e John Talman e oggi conservati presso l'Ashmolean Museum di Oxford: Larger Album,... more
La tesi si propone come un catalogo completo dei disegni miscellanei accolti all'interno di tre album appartenuti alla collezione di William e John Talman e oggi conservati presso l'Ashmolean Museum di Oxford: Larger Album, Smaller Album, Fountain Album. Nei capitoli introduttivi vengono affrontati vari aspetti connessi con l'attività collezionistica dei due Talman e il ruolo della collezione stessa come strumento professionale da parte di William Talman e nella promozione di un gusto "italiano" nella produzione architettonica e più in generale artistica dell'Inghilterra di Guglielmo III e della Regina Anna
Research Interests: Art, Daniel Defoe, History of architecture, Marbles, The Use of Marble and Other Stones, and 11 moreHampton Court Palace, Ancient marble quarries, Ancient Roman Marbles, History of Architecture, English Baroque, Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, English Baroque Architecture, John Talman, Richard Lassels, and William Talman
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This article presents two unpublished drawings coming from the Largest Talman Album, a voluminous collection of architectural designs belonging to the famous collector and antiquarian John Talman, conserved at the Ashmolean Museum in... more
This article presents two unpublished drawings coming from the Largest Talman Album, a voluminous collection of architectural designs belonging to the famous collector and antiquarian John Talman, conserved at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The sheets are attributed to Pellegrino Tibaldi on the grounds of an analysis of the graphic and stylistic characteristics of the designs and are related to the Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Fonte di Caravaggio. In the seventh decade of the 16th century, on the wishes of San Carlo Borromeo, this building was the object of a radical redefinition both architecturally and in terms of cult worship. The designs are analyzed in the context of Tibaldi’s activity at the sanctuary and are compared with sheets already known regarding the reconstruction of the temple conserved at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and with a comprehensive autograph report conserved in the sanctuary’s archive. Of particular interest is the analysis of the ground-plan characteristics of the two projects and their meaning in relation to the specific cult characteristics of the dual pole of devotion comprising the ‘Fonte miracoloso’ and the so-called ‘Sacro Speco’, that is, the precise location of the Virgin’s apparition. The drawings illustrated in the article, today conserved at Oxford, reveal the particular attention paid by Pellegrino Tibaldi to the design of the sacellum used to preserve these venerable testimonies. The purpose of the complex definition of the small building was to exalt the main pole of worship inside the vast sanctuary and to regulate access to the two distinct memorial sites by different types of pilgrim. Lastly, the history of the ownership of the drawings is investigated in an attempt to reconstruct the reasons for their entering the Talman collection.
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La tesi costituisce un catalogo del Largest Album conservato presso l'Ashmolean Museum di Oxford. L'album venne assemblato da John Talman entro il primo quindicennio del XVIII secolo. Esso è di particolare interesse tanto per il... more
La tesi costituisce un catalogo del Largest Album conservato presso l'Ashmolean Museum di Oxford. L'album venne assemblato da John Talman entro il primo quindicennio del XVIII secolo. Esso è di particolare interesse tanto per il suo contenuto (la raccolta costituisce ...
Research Interests: Humanities, History of architecture, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Renaissance and Baroque Architectural Drawings, Trevi Fountain, and 10 moreUrbano VIII, History of Architecture, Giacomo Della Porta, Clemente VIII, Fontana Di Trevi, Roman Acqueducts, Rome City of, Girolamo Rainaldi, Pietro Bernini, and Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini
Paper-models were widely used by artists from 16th to 18th Century. They were assembled from orthogonal architectural drawings, cut, folded and glued in order to create three-dimensional objects. Although they have never been considered... more
Paper-models were widely used by artists from 16th to 18th Century. They were assembled from orthogonal architectural drawings, cut, folded and glued in order to create three-dimensional objects. Although
they have never been considered as a field of study, a large number of documents testify the relevance of paper-models in the process of communicating ideas between architects and patrons, casting new
light on many central aspects of Renaissance and Baroque design.
So far mistaken for common orthogonal drawings, many ancient architectural designs can be recognized as unfolded models thanks to the presence of certain cuts, folds, or tabs. The paper
discusses a wide group of drawings originally assembled as three-dimensional models (some still unpublished), executed by Peruzzi, Buontalenti, and Brandani and many other leading Italian artists and architects from 16th, 17th and 18th Century. Through selected
documents many no longer existing models manufactured - among the others - by Cellini, Alessi and Bernini, will be also discussed in their proper cultural, material and social contexts.
Giovanni Santucci
they have never been considered as a field of study, a large number of documents testify the relevance of paper-models in the process of communicating ideas between architects and patrons, casting new
light on many central aspects of Renaissance and Baroque design.
So far mistaken for common orthogonal drawings, many ancient architectural designs can be recognized as unfolded models thanks to the presence of certain cuts, folds, or tabs. The paper
discusses a wide group of drawings originally assembled as three-dimensional models (some still unpublished), executed by Peruzzi, Buontalenti, and Brandani and many other leading Italian artists and architects from 16th, 17th and 18th Century. Through selected
documents many no longer existing models manufactured - among the others - by Cellini, Alessi and Bernini, will be also discussed in their proper cultural, material and social contexts.
Giovanni Santucci
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Intervento tenuto al primo seminario del Gruppo per lo studio dei modelli di architettura, diretto da Howard Burns (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Sabine Frommel (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris e École d'Architecture de Paris... more
Intervento tenuto al primo seminario del Gruppo per lo studio dei modelli di architettura, diretto da Howard Burns (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Sabine Frommel (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris e École d'Architecture de Paris La Villette). Firenze, Casa Buonarroti, 4 maggio 2010. Invitato dal Prof. Howard Burns (Scuola Normale Superiore)
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Research Interests: Benvenuto Cellini, 3D Modelling (Architecture), History of architecture, Architectural Design, Giorgio Vasari, and 15 moreThree dimensional modeling and simulation, Wooden Models, Alessandro Allori, Understanding Architectural Space, Architectural Drawing, Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Three Dimensional Building Models, Federico Zuccari, Paper Models, Three-dimensional Model, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Three-dimensional (3D) Model, Bernardo Buontalenti, and Don Giovanni de' Medici
Research Interests: History of the Mediterranean, History of architecture, History of military Engineering, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Livorno, and 7 moreArchitettura militare, Cosimo II granduca di Toscana, History of Livorno, Robert Dudley, Duca di Nortumbria, Architettura Militare del Cinquecento e Seicento, Don Giovanni de' Medici, and Cosimo II de' Medici
Research Interests: History of Florence, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Livorno, Leghorn, Cristina di Lorena, and 10 moreFerdinando I de' Medici, Ferdinando II de' Medici, James VI and I, Robert Southwell, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Cosimo II granduca di Toscana, Maria Maddalena d'Austria (moglie di Cosimo II de' Medici), Robert Dudley, Duca di Nortumbria, and Elizabeth Southwell
Research Interests: Rome, City of, History of architecture, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Renaissance and Baroque Architectural Drawings, Trevi Fountain, and 9 moreUrbano VIII, Giacomo Della Porta, Clemente VIII, Fontana Di Trevi, Roman Acqueducts, Guerra, Giovanni, Girolamo Rainaldi, Pietro Bernini, and Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini
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Research Interests: Old Master drawings, History of architecture, Renaissance and Baroque Architectural Drawings, Architectural Scale Models, Urbino, and 9 moreSanta Casa di Loreto, Baldassare Peruzzi, MAQUETTES AS ART WORK TO REPRESENT ARTISTS VISIONS, Pietro Da Cortona, Paper Models, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Loreto, Ducato Di Urbino, and Ashmolean Museum
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Numerose fonti britanniche hanno in passato attribuito a Robert Dudley (1574-1649), complessa figura di espatriato cattolico accolto in Toscana dal Granduca Ferdinando I, un ruolo decisivo nella progettazione delle infrastrutture... more
Numerose fonti britanniche hanno in passato attribuito a Robert Dudley (1574-1649), complessa figura di espatriato cattolico accolto in Toscana dal Granduca Ferdinando I, un ruolo decisivo nella progettazione delle infrastrutture marittime di Livorno, nella bonifica del suo territorio, nel consolidamento delle reti commerciali con l’Inghilterra e persino nell’istituzione del porto franco, facendone in un certo senso il vero “inventore” della città. La conferenza, che si inserisce nel ciclo di eventi “Giovedì in Gipsoteca“, conversazioni di Archeologia, Arte e Architettura a cura del corso di laurea in Scienze dei Beni Culturali dell'Università di Pisa,.discute criticamente questa tradizione, ma anche una contrapposta storiografia che tende a ridimensionare eccessivamente, se non a ignorare, il ruolo di Dudley, e, col supporto dei documenti, tenta di precisare quale sia stato l’effettivo contributo dell’inglese allo sviluppo del grande porto dei Medici.
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Intervento tenuto al Simposio ‘Disegno e modello di architettura’, organizzato da Howard Burns presso la Scuola Normale Superiore. Pisa, Palazzo della Carovana, 10 – 12 maggio 2012 (11 maggio). Invitato dal Prof. Howard Burns (Scuola... more
Intervento tenuto al Simposio ‘Disegno e modello di architettura’, organizzato da Howard Burns presso la Scuola Normale Superiore. Pisa, Palazzo della Carovana, 10 – 12 maggio 2012 (11 maggio). Invitato dal Prof. Howard Burns (Scuola Normale Superiore)
https://www.sns.it/it/evento/disegno-modello-architettura
https://www.sns.it/it/evento/disegno-modello-architettura
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Research Interests: 3D Modelling (Architecture), History of architecture, Architectural Design, Renaissance and Baroque Architectural Drawings, Giorgio Vasari, and 7 moreGiovanni Antonio Dosio, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Architectural Theory and Design, Architectural Working Drawings, Federico Zuccari, Baldassarre Peruzzi, and Bernardo Buontalenti
Research Interests: Daniel Defoe, History of architecture, Marbles, The Use of Marble and Other Stones, Hampton Court Palace, and 11 moreAncient marble quarries, Ancient Roman Marbles, Christopher Wren's churches, English Baroque, Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, English Baroque Architecture, John Talman, Richard Lassels (1603-1668), St. Paul's Cathedral, and William Talman
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In the Proceedings of the International Study Conference ‘Il contributo di una famiglia del Canton Ticino allo sviluppo dell’arte e dell’architettura barocca a Roma: riflessioni sul contesto italiano e europeo di Giacomo, Giovanni... more
In the Proceedings of the International Study Conference ‘Il contributo di una famiglia del Canton Ticino allo sviluppo dell’arte e dell’architettura barocca a Roma: riflessioni sul contesto italiano e europeo di Giacomo, Giovanni Battista e Pier Francesco Mola’ (Mendrisio, Accademia di architettura, June 6 – 7, 2013), edited by Jörg Zutter & Adriano Amendola.
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Research Interests: Galileo Galilei, History of construction technology, History of architecture, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Andrea Palladio, and 26 moreGiorgio Vasari, The Medici Effect, Florence, Renaissance Florence, Storia Dell'Architettura, 15th Century Florence, Renaissance Florence, 16th Century Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici, Le Vite (1550 e 1568), Brunelleschi's Dome, Architettura, storia dell'arte, medieval Florence, Arnolfo Di Cambio, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Accademia Del Disegno, Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Pistoia, Filippo Brunelleschi, Brunelleschi, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Jacopo Barozzi Da Vignola, Martino Bassi, MIchelozzo, Le Vite Di Giorgio Vasari, Bernardo Buontalenti, and Loggia dei Lanzi
Research Interests: Design Process (Architecture), Architectural Theory, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Roman Architecture, Andrea Palladio, and 10 moreGiorgio Vasari, Materials, techniques and technologies of architecture and construction, Vitruvio, technological studies of Art- historical resources of Art and architecture techniques, proportions and Harmony in architecture, Roman Archaeology, Drawing Classical Orders of Architecture, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Martino Bassi, and Classical Orders of Architecture
Presentazione tenuta nell’ambito del Workshop ‘Architecture as process: Drawings and models’, organizzato da Amanda Lillie. University of York, History of Art Department, Architecture & Theory Research School, 5 giugno 2017. Invitato... more
Presentazione tenuta nell’ambito del Workshop ‘Architecture as process: Drawings and models’, organizzato da Amanda Lillie. University of York, History of Art Department, Architecture & Theory Research School, 5 giugno 2017. Invitato dalla Prof.sa Amanda Lillie
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«La pianta di Pisa della Galleria degli Uffizi», a presentation given at the International Study Workshop ‘Giuliano da Sangallo’, organized by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz/Max-Planck-Institut; Florence, Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, September 14 – 17, 2011, Gallery (September 17).more
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a paper given at the International Symposium ‘Microarchitecture et figures du bâti’, Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, (12 – 13 Dicembre 2014).