Parution : Alexander Nagel, Giancarla Periti, “Ravenna in the Imagination of Renaissance Art”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020
Ravenna in the Imagination of Renaissance Art It is clear that Renaissance artists and their patrons were interested in Ravenna’s buildings and their decorations, both before Vasari’s negative pronouncements and after them. Contemporary European travelers and diarists have left descriptions of the city’s heritage, by then in ruinous condition. What happens if we reinsert this corpus of Ravenna’s treasures and their multiple imbrications into our histories of Renaissance art? How can our narratives change if...