This article focuses on the frescoed frieze in Palazzo Vizzani, the one with The History of Cyrus the Great. It presents a relatively rare theme in the visual arts of the sixteenth century which appeared only in some series of tapestries commissioned by powerful aristocratic patrons for their residences. This is due to the fact that this character (Cyrus the Great) was associated with the genre literary of the 'Mirror of Princes'. The link can be traced back to the Ciropedia of ancient Greece, in which Xenophon described Cyrus the Great as a perfect monarch, a figure that is considered an idol by many sovereigns of the classical era and even of the Renaissance. However, another Greek writer, Herodotus, created a completely different Cyrus i...
The allegorical significance of Fortune in Dosso Dossi’s Allegory of Fortune has been largely unstud...
This essay focuses on two mediaeval ceilings whose iconography has turned out to be helpful for phil...
Le groupe chevaleresque des Neuf Preux, apparu dans le roman des Vœux du Paon de Jacques de Longuyon...
Although the fresco decoration of Agostino Chigi's Villa Farnesina in Rome has received much scholar...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1999 Dr. Susan Russell.A survey of the painted frieze in...
Questo libro percorre la storia della famiglia Farnese, dagli inizi nel Medioevo feudale alla formaz...
Images of mythological heroes, the half-mortal descendants of pagan deities, abounded in the visual ...
The article examines from an iconographic and stylistic point of view the pictorial decoration of th...
The ‘Platonic youth’ by Bertoldo di Giovanni, or the ‘Portrait of Giovanni Cavalcanti’, the “amico u...
The Villa Giulia was erected between 1551 and 1555 as a suburban retreat for Pope.Julius III. Design...
The present paper focuses on the representation of Byzantine emperor as deity in the mosaics and fre...
The article investigates crowns, garments and other symbols of sovereignty characterising the Kings ...
In this book Claudia Daniotti provides the first comprehensive study of the representation of Alexan...
Since the 3rd century, Christian art, as evidenced by the catacomb paintings, appears to be strongly...
The present paper focuses on the representation of Byzantine emperor as deity in the mosaics and fre...
The allegorical significance of Fortune in Dosso Dossi’s Allegory of Fortune has been largely unstud...
This essay focuses on two mediaeval ceilings whose iconography has turned out to be helpful for phil...
Le groupe chevaleresque des Neuf Preux, apparu dans le roman des Vœux du Paon de Jacques de Longuyon...
Although the fresco decoration of Agostino Chigi's Villa Farnesina in Rome has received much scholar...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1999 Dr. Susan Russell.A survey of the painted frieze in...
Questo libro percorre la storia della famiglia Farnese, dagli inizi nel Medioevo feudale alla formaz...
Images of mythological heroes, the half-mortal descendants of pagan deities, abounded in the visual ...
The article examines from an iconographic and stylistic point of view the pictorial decoration of th...
The ‘Platonic youth’ by Bertoldo di Giovanni, or the ‘Portrait of Giovanni Cavalcanti’, the “amico u...
The Villa Giulia was erected between 1551 and 1555 as a suburban retreat for Pope.Julius III. Design...
The present paper focuses on the representation of Byzantine emperor as deity in the mosaics and fre...
The article investigates crowns, garments and other symbols of sovereignty characterising the Kings ...
In this book Claudia Daniotti provides the first comprehensive study of the representation of Alexan...
Since the 3rd century, Christian art, as evidenced by the catacomb paintings, appears to be strongly...
The present paper focuses on the representation of Byzantine emperor as deity in the mosaics and fre...
The allegorical significance of Fortune in Dosso Dossi’s Allegory of Fortune has been largely unstud...
This essay focuses on two mediaeval ceilings whose iconography has turned out to be helpful for phil...
Le groupe chevaleresque des Neuf Preux, apparu dans le roman des Vœux du Paon de Jacques de Longuyon...