Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo

Lorenzo Lotto: two copies (but what copies!)

I confess to a half-hearted shock when, leafing through the latest issue of the scholarly journal Artibus et historiae (80, 2019), I came across an article by Keith Christiansen entitled Thoughts Regarding Two Lost Portrait Covers by Lorenzo Lotto....
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How sad Venice is...

Upset by the tragedy in Venice? And why would that be? It was all more than predictable. Strange that it didn't happen sooner.After the terrible acqua granda of 1966 (which so impressed the world, to the point that dozens of spontaneous committees, m...
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The foundation of the Mona Lisa and the mascara of Giorgione's Old Woman.

The most famous painting in the world is the Mona Lisa, yet no one has really seen it (fig. 1). In the sense that no one has seen it as it is under the thick layer of dirt and oxidized paint that covers it. Right now the woman's skin has ...
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A (non-pocket) guide to understanding ancient gestures

It happens not infrequently that extraordinary works of art are found in full view of everyone in a church or museum or public building and that suddenly from the condition of anonymity or underestimation in which they had remained encapsulated f...
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Lionello Puppi: a remembrance

With Lionello Puppi passes away a great master of Italian art history of the last sixty years. He had graduated from Padua with the Byzantinist Sergio Bettini, with a thesis on the Vicenza painter Bartolomeo Montagna, which until a few years ago was ...
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