All the articles by Bruno Zanardi on Finestre sull'Arte

In the pleasure dome

We publish below, as anticipated inBruno Zanardi's article last May 18, and after the article written by Francis Haskell, the one written by Alberto Arbasino for the book that Guanda published in 1990 on the occasion of the restoration of Correggio's...
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Correggio and its importance for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

We publish below, as anticipated inBruno Zanardi's article last May 18, the article written by Francis Haskell in the book that Guanda published in 1990 on the occasion of the restoration of Correggio's frescoes in the dome of San Giovanni in Parma. ...
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More on Correggio's frescoes in the dome of the abbey church of San Giovanni in Parma

As already written in the December 31, 2023issue of "Finestre sull'Arte," in the 1980s Parma was becoming a small restoration capital in Italy. The then Vicar General of the Diocese, Monsignor Franco Grisenti, a priest with great organizational skill...
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Giotto at the airport? The real issue is our relationship with heritage

I am asked by "Finestre Sull'Arte" for an opinion on the display at Fiumicino airport of three large panels of the stained-glass window that originally stood at the end of the right aisle of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. Erratic panels tha...
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The restoration of the Basilica Ulpia? Not exactly exciting

Much is being said these days about the completion of the work by which a small part of the colonnade of the Basilica Ulpia that had been lying on the ground for centuries and centuries in the area of the Imperial Fora in Rome and the steps behind it...
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Attilio Bertolucci face-to-face with Correggio's frescoes

I present here a semi-ignored documentary by Giuseppe Bertolucci about Father Attilio's visit to Correggio's dome in the abbey church of San Giovanni, Parma during the work I carried out in reviewing the restoration of the frescoes carried out betwee...
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More on the Garisenda: the affair would never have arisen if...

An article appeared these days in the Bolognese newspaper "Il Resto del Carlino" documenting the care devoted as early as the nineteenth century to the thousand-year-old Garisenda Tower, a symbol of the city, which today is said to be in danger of co...
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On the problem of the Garisenda tower. Bruno Zanardi's point of view

For Giorgio Macchi, sit tibi terra levis For some months now in Bologna there has been a fear that the Garisenda municipal tower, one of the symbols of the city, may collapse. This is a complex and serious problem about which there are many things t...
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