Parution : E. Cropper, L. Pericolo, « Carlo Cesare Malvasia. Felsina pittrice: The Lives of Francesco Francia and Lorenzo Costa », Turnhout, Brepols, 2022
Equipped with the most refined tools of forensic eloquence, seething with outrage, Malvasia is at his best in challenging Vasari’s historical distortions and prejudices not only in connection with Francia, but also his disciples, Timoteo Viti (1469–1523), Lorenzo Costa (1460–1535), and Giovanni Maria Chiodarolo (1480–1530). In Bologna, Giorgio Vasari’s maniera moderna is inaugurated through the art of the goldsmith-painter Francesco Francia (c.1447–1517). Malvasia assimilates the beginning of this new era with the end of night...