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🇬🇧 “God is in the detail”: I find myself returning to Aby Warburg’s celebrated maxim as I inaugurate this new corner of the blog. Entitled "Details/Dettagli", this column will curate concise observations and reflections elicited by paintings, statuary, and the artifacts of design and applied arts—focusing specifically on those minute yet salient features that so often elude the casual gaze.]]></description><link>https://micheledantini.substack.com/s/dettagli</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYcX!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd03d487f-93e5-424c-a37b-40fd6aeea08e_432x432.png</url><title>Michele Dantini: Details/Dettagli (Longform)</title><link>https://micheledantini.substack.com/s/dettagli</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:56:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://micheledantini.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Michele Dantini]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[it]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[micheledantini@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[micheledantini@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[MicheleDantini]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[MicheleDantini]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[micheledantini@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[micheledantini@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[MicheleDantini]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Details/Dettagli. Indici/1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Polidoro da Caravaggio, La "Sala delle Carte geografiche", Parmigianino, un'anonima scultura in legno napoletana del secondo Settecento, un affresco di Pompei]]></description><link>https://micheledantini.substack.com/p/detailsdettagli-indici1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://micheledantini.substack.com/p/detailsdettagli-indici1</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MicheleDantini]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:26:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QiTi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb72c3e2-7ea5-4600-b44e-b2d27cec8525_1056x1402.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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This is my public research notebook: short essays, critical readings of artworks and exhibitions, and reflections on visual culture.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c93483b6-814a-4394-bcb0-7032018d1688_1287x1287.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17T06:28:13.458Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sSWy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc94a7e18-819f-4e59-872a-70dedde762b6_1588x1142.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://micheledantini.substack.com/p/la-sala-delle-carte-geografiche&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Details/Dettagli (Longform)&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:188120075,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:10,&quot;comment_count&quot;:2,&quot;publication_id&quot;:402793,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Michele Dantini&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYcX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd03d487f-93e5-424c-a37b-40fd6aeea08e_432x432.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="comment" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/&quot;,&quot;commentId&quot;:218007418,&quot;comment&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:218007418,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-22T10:04:48.254Z&quot;,&quot;edited_at&quot;:&quot;2026-02-22T13:21:28.190Z&quot;,&quot;body&quot;:&quot;DETAILS / DETTAGLI #4\n\n&#127470;&#127481; Scultore anonimo in legno, San Francesco, 1763, Chiesa di San Francesco degli Scaroni, Napoli\n\nL&#8217;ampio movimento delle braccia del Santo, circolare e quasi danzante, congiunge il vestibolo alla citt&#224;, la Chiesa al pubblico dei fedeli. 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Telefo bambino, figlio di Eracle, allattato da una cerva, affresco dalla Basilica di Ercolano, Pompei, Italia, oggi Museo Archeologico, Napoli\n\nThe sheer immediacy of the human-nature rapport here is nothing short of arresting.\n\n&#127470;&#127481; L&#8217;immediatezza del rapporto uomo/natura qui &#232; sorprendente.&quot;,&quot;body_json&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;doc&quot;,&quot;attrs&quot;:{&quot;schemaVersion&quot;:&quot;v1&quot;},&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;DETAILS / DETTAGLI #3&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Telephus, son of Heracles, suckled by a doe&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, Basilica of the Herculaneum, Pompeii, today Museo Archeologico, Napoli&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&#127470;&#127481; &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Telefo bambino, figlio di Eracle, allattato da una cerva&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, affresco dalla Basilica di Ercolano, Pompei, Italia, oggi Museo Archeologico, Napoli&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;The sheer immediacy of the human-nature rapport here is nothing short of arresting.&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&#127470;&#127481; &quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;L&#8217;immediatezza del rapporto uomo/natura qui &#232; sorprendente.&quot;}]}]},&quot;restacks&quot;:0,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:2,&quot;attachments&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;02124492-f2e6-498b-aea9-825a4add5268&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;imageUrl&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/74c8f4a6-6406-47e5-bf3e-6dd0783abf01_1824x2169.png&quot;,&quot;imageWidth&quot;:1824,&quot;imageHeight&quot;:2169,&quot;explicit&quot;:false}],&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MicheleDantini&quot;,&quot;user_id&quot;:7647758,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c93483b6-814a-4394-bcb0-7032018d1688_1287x1287.png&quot;,&quot;user_bestseller_tier&quot;:null,&quot;userStatus&quot;:{&quot;bestsellerTier&quot;:null,&quot;subscriberTier&quot;:null,&quot;leaderboard&quot;:null,&quot;vip&quot;:false,&quot;badge&quot;:null,&quot;paidPublicationIds&quot;:[],&quot;subscriber&quot;:null}},&quot;source&quot;:null,&quot;forumChannel&quot;:null}" data-component-name="CommentPlaceholder"></div><div class="comment" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/&quot;,&quot;commentId&quot;:215694734,&quot;comment&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:215694734,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17T11:46:12.415Z&quot;,&quot;edited_at&quot;:&quot;2026-02-18T18:55:31.730Z&quot;,&quot;body&quot;:&quot;DETAILS / DETTAGLI #2\n\n&#127470;&#127481; Il lume delle Vergini savie di Parmigianino nel Duomo di Parma (1531-1539). Un bagliore che non ha necessit&#224; di troppe parole.&nbsp;\n\nRembrandt, pointillismo (Seurat!), divisionismo, il futurismo di Balla e chi sa quali differenti orfismi europei sono racchiusi&nbsp;in nuce&nbsp;nella magia di quel lume. Ma la fiamma di Parmigianino non esce accresciuta per il fatto di essere &#8220;origine&#8221;. Lo &#232; semplicemente. \n\nMolteplici sue scintille giungono sino a noi, con pari merito, attingendo alla luce granulare e dorata, teologica e magica insieme, che ne promana: e che si fa beffe di quanti, ancora oggi!, guardano alla pittura del Rinascimento, Manierismo e Barocco in termini di &#8220;naturalismo&#8221;.\n\nTutto qui: pictura sub specie metaphysica explicata in un affresco il cui tema, non a caso, &#232; l&#8217;allerta spirituale: lo sguardo desto, la cura e cautela (prudentia), il difficile equilibrio ex contrariis.\n\n&#127468;&#127463; The resplendent light of Parmigianino&#8217;s Wise Virgins in the Parma Cathedral (1531&#8211;1539) is a marvel that renders prolixity redundant.\n\nWithin the sorcery of that illumination, one finds in nuce the seeds of Rembrandt, the Pointillism of Seurat, Divisionism, the Futurism of Balla, and a myriad of European Orphisms. Yet, Parmigianino&#8217;s flame gains no extra luster by virtue of being an \&quot;origin.\&quot; It simply is&#8212;unquestionable.\n\n Its manifold stylistic lineages reach down to us with equal merit, drawing from an image of granular, golden light&#8212;at once theological and occult&#8212;that emanates from the work. This light stands as a silent mockery of those who, even today, persist in viewing Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque painting through the reductive lens of \&quot;naturalism.\&quot;\n\nThat is the essence: pictura sub specie metaphysica explicata in a fresco whose theme&#8212;not by coincidence&#8212;is spiritual alertness and the wakeful gaze.&quot;,&quot;body_json&quot;:{&quot;attrs&quot;:{&quot;schemaVersion&quot;:&quot;v1&quot;},&quot;type&quot;:&quot;doc&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;DETAILS / DETTAGLI #2&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&#127470;&#127481; &quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Il lume delle Vergini savie di &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Parmigianino&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot; nel Duomo di Parma (1531-1539). Un bagliore che non ha necessit&#224; di troppe parole.&nbsp;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Rembrandt&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, pointillismo (&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Seurat&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;!), divisionismo, il futurismo di &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Balla&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot; e chi sa quali differenti orfismi europei sono racchiusi&nbsp;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;in nuce&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&nbsp;nella magia di quel lume. Ma la fiamma di Parmigianino non esce accresciuta per il fatto di essere &#8220;origine&#8221;. Lo &#232; semplicemente. &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Molteplici sue scintille giungono sino a noi, con pari merito, attingendo alla luce granulare e dorata, teologica e magica insieme, che ne promana: e che si fa beffe di quanti, ancora oggi!, guardano alla pittura del Rinascimento, Manierismo e Barocco in termini di &#8220;naturalismo&#8221;.&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Tutto qui: &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;pictura sub specie metaphysica explicata&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot; in un affresco il cui tema, non a caso, &#232; l&#8217;allerta spirituale: lo sguardo desto, la cura e cautela (&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;prudentia&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;), il difficile equilibrio &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;ex contrariis&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;.&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&#127468;&#127463; &quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;The resplendent light of &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Parmigianino&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&#8217;s Wise Virgins in the Parma Cathedral (1531&#8211;1539) is a marvel that renders prolixity redundant.&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Within the sorcery of that illumination, one finds in nuce the seeds of &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Rembrandt&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, the Pointillism of &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Seurat&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, Divisionism, the Futurism of &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Balla&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bold&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;, and a myriad of European Orphisms. Yet, Parmigianino&#8217;s flame gains no extra luster by virtue of being an \&quot;origin.\&quot; It simply is&#8212;unquestionable.&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot; Its manifold stylistic lineages reach down to us with equal merit, drawing from an image of granular, golden light&#8212;at once theological and occult&#8212;that emanates from the work. This light stands as a silent mockery of those who, even today, persist in viewing Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque painting through the reductive lens of \&quot;naturalism.\&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}]},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;paragraph&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:[{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;That is the essence: &quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot;pictura sub specie metaphysica explicata&quot;,&quot;marks&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;italic&quot;}],&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;},{&quot;text&quot;:&quot; in a fresco whose theme&#8212;not by coincidence&#8212;is spiritual alertness and the wakeful 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>&#127468;&#127463; </strong><em>English Version below</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Sappiamo poche cose del <strong>Maestro della Croce 434</strong>, pittore di scuola bizantina attivo nell&#8217;Italia centrale nella prima met&#224; del Duecento. Poche cose e formulari, ripetute sempre di nuovo da schede di catalogo e cartellini di museo: alcune date misurate in decenni, il suo contributo all&#8217;affermazione della Croce sagomata, il &#8220;patetismo&#8221; di alcune figure. Tuttavia &#232; possibile che gi&#224; a una data cos&#236; precoce, nel momento delle &#8220;origini&#8221;, il pittore, qualsiasi pittore, abbia un senso della propria professione e mandato che non &#232; in alcun modo troppo semplice o &#8220;ingenuo&#8221;, come in epoche successive si tende poi a ritenere.</p><p>Un semplice dettaglio, qui, nella <em>Crocifissione</em> conservata agli Uffizi di Firenze. Nel <em>tabellone</em> di sinistra - &#8220;tabelloni&#8221; si dicono, nelle Croci sagomate, gli scomparti laterali, che riportano in genere episodi della Vita di Cristo e della Passione - il Maestro, che sembra trarre spunto dai <strong>Vangeli di Matteo, Marco e Giovanni</strong>, da testi apocrifi e dalla letteratura devozionale del giorno di Pasqua (il Canone di Pasqua, gli inni liturgici, etc.), raffigura le Tre Donne che visitano il sepolcro, nel terzo giorno dalla Crocifissione, e lo trovano vuoto. Trovano per&#242; l&#8217;Angelo, che, il sottile scettro rosso nella mano sinistra, annuncia loro la Resurrezione di Cristo; e altres&#236; i soldati romani abbagliati dal grande fulgore. Le Tre Donne vedono poi i teli di lino posati a terra (<em>othonia</em>) e il lenzuolo che avvolgeva Cristo (<em>soudarion</em>) ripiegato con ordine in un angolo del sepolcro (in realt&#224;, qui, appeso a parete). Il lenzuolo &#232; ci&#242; che &#232; conosciuto oggi come Sindone, secondo tradizione: l&#8217;immagine di Cristo non disegnata o dipinta da mano umana, ma <em><strong>acheropita</strong></em>, vale a dire rivelata.</p><p>Il <em>soudarion</em> &#232; celeste: un particolare che il pittore non trae da questo o quel Vangelo o altro ma (cos&#236; pare) dalla propria immaginazione; e che ha un evidente senso simbolico. Il lenzuolo possiede il colore del cielo: partecipa dunque esso stesso della Resurrezione.</p><p>L&#8217;Angelo, nella Croce dipinta dal nostro pittore, fa riferimento specifico al lenzuolo mentre indica in direzione del sepolcro vuoto. Anzi, si potrebbe quasi suggerire che indica la lancia, metafora figurativa del sottile pennello con cui l&#8217;iconografo <em>scrive </em>l&#8217;icona. Commenta cos&#236;, o piuttosto <em>istruisce</em> il pittore cristiano - tale il Maestro della Croce 434 considera s&#233; stesso, n&#233; potrebbe essere altrimenti - sul suo compito: attenersi fedelmente, cos&#236; nelle forme come nella mente e nel cuore, all&#8217;immagine che Cristo ha lasciato di s&#233;, &#8220;dipingendola&#8221; con la propria sofferenza e Passione. In epoca rinascimentale e barocca sar&#224; pi&#249; spesso l&#8217;episodio di <strong>San Luca che dipinge la Vergine</strong> a ricordare ai pittori una simile obbligazione. </p><p>Una confusa catasta di armature commiste a membra abbandonate: cos&#236;, con robusta ironia, il Maestro della Croce 434 descrive i soldati romani. Un grigio manto d&#8217;ombra sembra serrarli, cos&#236; che risultano contrapposti alla luminosit&#224; di teli e lenzuolo. Si fronteggiano qui, sotto profili anche visivi, il Regno dell&#8217;Ombra e il Regno della Grazia.</p><p>Infine qualche cenno di intricata iconografia (o sincretismo) testamentario. Giovanni non menziona le tre donne, riferendo dell&#8217;incontro tra la sola <strong>Maria di Magdala</strong> e il &#8220;Giardiniere&#8221;, vale a dire Cristo risorto,<em> dopo</em> che Giovanni e Pietro si sono avvicinati al sepolcro e hanno scorto i lini e il lenzuolo. Matteo, che tace su Pietro e Giovanni, menziona due donne, Maria di Magdala e un&#8217;altra: portano aromi al sepolcro. E&#8217; Marco a fissare il numero di tre, che la tradizione acquisisce poi come definitivo. Lo scambio tra sepolcro e grotta, che il Maestro della Croce rinnova, &#232; consueto nella tradizione bizantina: l&#8217;episodio della Resurrezione allude in tal modo, per via iconografica, alla discesa di Cristo al Limbo.</p><div><hr></div><p>Grazie per aver letto <em>Dettagli</em>, la sezione del blog dedicata all&#8217;osservazione ravvicinata di quadri, sculture, arredi e oggetti di arti applicate e design. Iscriviti per ricevere i prossimi articoli e supportare il mio lavoro.</p><p>Sei gi&#224; iscritto? 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Our knowledge is sparse and formulaic, a litany of tropes recycled through catalogue entries and museum labels: a chronology measured in decades, his contribution to the evolution of the shaped cross (croce sagomata), and the &#8220;pathetism&#8221; of certain figures. Yet it is possible that even at this early date&#8212;at the very moment of &#8220;origins&#8221;&#8212;the painter possessed a sense of professional mandate that was neither simple nor &#8220;naive,&#8221; despite the condescension of later eras.</p><p>A singular detail emerges here, in the <em>Crucifixion</em> held by the Uffizi in Florence. On the left <em>tabellone</em>&#8212;the lateral panels of the shaped cross typically depicting scenes from the Life and Passion of Christ&#8212;the Master depicts the Three Holy Women visiting the tomb on the third day. Drawing from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John, as well as apocryphal texts and Paschal devotional literature (the Paschal Canon, liturgical hymns, etc.), the artist captures the moment they find the sepulcher empty. Instead, they encounter the Angel announcing the Resurrection and the Roman soldiers dazzled by the divine radiance. The women behold the linen cloths (<em>othonia</em>) lying on the ground and the shroud that had wrapped Christ (<em>soudarion</em>), folded neatly in a corner&#8212;though here, tellingly, it hangs upon the wall. This cloth is what tradition identifies as the Shroud: the image of Christ not rendered by human hand, but <em><strong>acheiropoieta</strong></em>&#8212;revealed, rather than painted.</p><p>In this instance, the <em>soudarion</em> is rendered in celestial blue&#8212;a detail absent from the Gospel of John, yet heavy with symbolic intent. It possesses the hue of the heavens; it participates in the Resurrection itself.</p><p>The Angel in the Master&#8217;s painting makes a specific gesture toward the shroud while pointing into the void of the tomb. In doing so, he provides a commentary&#8212;or perhaps an instruction&#8212;to the Christian painter (as the Master surely defined himself) regarding his vocation: to adhere faithfully, in form as in heart, to the image Christ left of Himself, &#8220;painted&#8221; through His own suffering and Passion. In the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the motif of <strong>St. Luke painting the Virgin</strong> would more commonly serve to remind artists of this sacred obligation.</p><p>The Roman soldiers are described by the Master with a touch of irony: a muddled heap of armor intermingled with abandoned limbs. Wrapped in a gray mantle of shadow, they stand in stark opposition to the luminosity of the linens. 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La figura: non un eremita, forse un artista? Chiss&#224;. Talvolta la si interpreta come alter ego dell&#8217;artista, che qui si dispera, o dispererebbe, per l&#8217;irraggiungibile grandezza dell&#8217;Antico. La visione di Roma, dunque, sullo sfondo? Diffidiamo comunque degli eccessi di &#8220;autobiografismo&#8221;.</p><p>Roma &#8220;riscoperta&#8221; e reinventata, in quegli anni, sotto la guida di <strong>Raffaello</strong> <em>praefectus marmorum et lapidum omnium</em>, com&#8217;&#232; nominato da <strong>Papa Leone x</strong> il 27 agosto 1515: circostanza che Polidoro conosce bene. Tra 1517 e 1518 ha infatti preso parte alla decorazione delle <em>Logge Vaticane</em>, coordinata appunto da Raffaello.</p><p>Il disegno data al 1524, quando Polidoro, a Napoli tra 1523 e 1524, impegnato nella raffigurazione delle <em>Storie di Psiche</em> per il poeta e umanista Berardino Rota (rimane, del ciclo, la scena di <em>Psiche accolta sul Monte Olimpo</em>, 1524 ca., oggi al Louvre; vd. sotto), &#232; verosimilmente rientrato a Roma. Documenta il ricercato vagheggiamento dell&#8217;Antico che caratterizza la Roma di Leone x, alla vigilia del <strong>Sacco del 1527</strong>; e sembra quasi prefigurare, con il segno spettrale e quasi adunco dei capelli e dei panneggi, atmosfere tra neoclassiche e romantiche (alla F&#252;ssli, per intenderci). Sia pure un sogno, ma di chi non riposa. Anzi dorme tormentato come da una doglia.</p><p>La grandiosit&#224; della messa in scena e il corpo eroico, il calcolato patetismo, la sveltezza e impeccabilit&#224; dell&#8217;esecuzione, vale a dire la <em><strong>sprezzatura</strong></em> di cui Polidoro d&#224; prova, conferiscono al guazzo un rango altissimo nella pur scelta schiera delle opere su carta tra Rinascimento e Manierismo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L1Xj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c38fc71-076e-4ef6-a7a8-678e79b87e2d_800x499.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The figure: not a hermit, but maybe an artist? Who can say. It is sometimes interpreted as the artist&#8217;s alter ego, despairing&#8212;or prone to despair&#8212;over the unattainable grandeur of Antiquity. Is that, then, a vision of Rome in the background? We should, regardless, be wary of excessive &#8220;autobiographical&#8221; reading.</p><p><strong>Rome &#8220;rediscovered&#8221; and reinvented</strong>, in those years, under the guidance of <em>Raphael</em> as <em>praefectus marmorum et lapidum omnium</em>, so named by <strong>Pope Leo X</strong> on August 27, 1515: a circumstance <strong>Polidoro</strong> knew well. Indeed, between 1517 and 1518, he took part in the decoration of the Vatican Logge, coordinated by Raphael himself.</p><p>The drawing dates to 1524, when Polidoro&#8212;having been in Naples between 1523 and 1524 to work on the Stories of Psyche for the poet and humanist Berardino Rota (the scene of <em>Psyche Welcomed on Mount Olympus</em>, c. 1524, now in the Louvre, remains from that cycle; see below)&#8212;had likely returned to Rome. It documents the refined yearning for Antiquity that characterized the Rome of Leo X on the eve of the <strong>Sacco of 1527</strong>; with the spectral, almost hooked line of the hair and drapery, it seems to foreshadow atmospheres ranging from the Neoclassical to the Romantic (reminiscent of F&#252;ssli, as it were). A dream, perhaps, but of one who does not rest&#8212;who sleeps, rather, tormented as if by labor pains.</p><p>The grandiosity of the staging and the heroic body, the calculated pathos, the swiftness and flawlessness of execution&#8212;that is, the sprezzatura demonstrated by Polidoro&#8212;grant this gouache a supreme rank even among the elite ranks of works on paper between the Renaissance and Mannerism.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-BaZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6532aac5-7dc5-4b7a-a75d-843d3342be6d_2274x1904.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Vi collaborano artisti, geografi, ebanisti, scultori: dietro richiesta di <strong>Cosimo i dei Medici</strong>, sotto la direzione di <strong>Giorgio Vasari</strong> e del geografo <strong>Fra&#8217; Miniato Pitti</strong>.</p><p>Oltre al contributo, decisivo, di Fra&#8217; Miniato Pitti, sono due monaci, qui, a disegnare le 53 tavole oggi esistenti, che illustrano tutto il mondo allora conosciuto, incluse le zone torride intertropicali, le regioni artiche e antartiche: un immenso ampliamento di prospettive, rispetto agli Antichi.</p><p>Di fatto la crescente distanza tra <strong>Antichi e Moderni</strong> &#232; argomento implicito nell&#8217;impresa, a riprova della &#8220;modernit&#224;&#8221; della <em>Sala delle Carte Geografiche</em>: perch&#233; qui, ancora oggi, si ha una concreta esperienza di quella cesura con il mondo greco-romano che il Primo Rinascimento non aveva avvertito e si avverte ormai invece, in modo potente, nel secondo Cinquecento. D&#8217;altra parte questa &#8220;modernit&#224;&#8221;, che irrompe con la scoperta dell&#8217;America e accende il desiderio di valicare tutte le &#8220;colonne d&#8217;Ercole&#8221; che il Medioevo aveva preservato, ha tratti ambivalenti agli occhi dei geografi tardo-cinquecenteschi, che sono anche uomini di chiesa.</p><p>Lo si afferma a chiare lettere: le cognizioni geografiche di <strong>Tolomeo</strong> e altri geografi di epoca ellenistica non sono pi&#249; valide, smentite dalla storia recente dei viaggi oceanici. D&#8217;altra parte i monaci-cartografi riconoscono facilmente che tali viaggi, rischiosi, non sono motivati dalla fede: ma dal &#8220;desiderio di honore e di ricchezze&#8221;, passioni secolari non prive di intrinseca ferocia. Ecco che per le popolazioni dell&#8217;Africa centrale o australe o del Nuovo Mondo l&#8217;espansione europea non &#232; un beneficio: crea invece le premesse della deportazione di interi popoli e la loro riduzione in schiavit&#249;. Tra 1550 e 1551 <strong>Carlo v</strong> convoca a Valladolid una Junta per discutere del trattamento da riservare agli Indios. Si deve riconoscere e rispettate la loro umanit&#224;, come sostiene il vescovo e frate dell&#8217;Ordine dei Predicatori <strong>Bartolom&#233; de las Casas</strong>; o assoggettarli senza piet&#224;, in quanto non-persone, come chiede Juan Gin&#233;s de Sepulveda? Nelle &#8220;carte&#8221; fiorentine, in particolare nell&#8217;iscrizione programmatica che trascrivo qui sotto, scorgiamo una traccia dell&#8217;inquietudine religiosa per le sorti riservate a africani e Indios.</p><p>Il senso che si riceve dall&#8217;impresa cartografica fiorentina non &#232; comunque di tormentato pessimismo: prevale invece l&#8217;euforia per l&#8217;immenso ampliamento di rotte e prospettive. Trenta tavole, delle cinquantatre complessive, sono del domenicano Egnazio Danti, che le dipinge tra 1564 e 1575; ventitre dell&#8217;olivetano Stefano Bonsignori, impegnato tra 1575 e 1586. Solo ventitre sono tratte dalla <em>Geographia</em> di <strong>Tolomeo</strong>, risalente al ii sec. d. C.; le altre, relative ad esempio al Nuovo Mondo, alle &#8220;part[i] d&#8217;Affrica&#8221; e &#8220;part[i] d&#8217;Affrica nuov[e]&#8221;, da fonti pi&#249; recenti. Poste nel punto esatto di intersezione tra pittura di paesaggio e topografia, le carte sono bellissime. Provvisti di vigorose cornici a <em>trompe-l&#8217;oeil</em>, i cartigli sono investiti da una luce chiara radente, come di rada al primo mattino, e invitano alla partenza e al viaggio.</p><p>Come gi&#224; accennato, sia il responsabile del progetto sia i cartografi sono uomini di chiesa, e appartengono a tre Ordini distinti: il loro ruolo qui, attesta l&#8217;unit&#224; di una cultura umanistico-cristiana, teologica, storico-letteraria e scientifica insieme, che non conosce ancora lacerazioni, e che la mutata immagine del mondo non ha compromesso. L&#8217;impresa costituisce inoltre prova del primato insieme artistico e scientifico che Firenze ancora possiede, sullo scorcio del Cinquecento.</p><p>Riporto qui di seguito, per maggiore facilit&#224; di lettura, l&#8217;iscrizione del cartiglio &#8220;programmatico&#8221;, di particolare interesse per tutto quanto ci siamo gi&#224; detti.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Usarono i geografi terminare i paesi da loro non conosciuti con selve horribili, mari non navigabili e monti asprissimi. N&#233; mancarono gli storici di aiutarli, con descrivere costumi di huomini pi&#249; che bestiali, nature d&#8217;animali crudelissimi e impedimenti pericolosissimi, con le quali cose ascondevano la verit&#224; e celavano tanti belli paesi, privando di cos&#236; belle notizie, e spaventando gli huomini di ricercarle. Et a tanti spaventi si aggiungevano le oppinioni de i Filosofi e degli Astronomi, i quali non volevano che tra i tropici e sotto l&#8217;equinozziale si potesse habitare, per il soverchio caldo, n&#233; dentro i cerchi artico e antartico, per il soverchio freddo; Et tanto era indurata questa oppinione nelle menti degli huomini, che ancor&#8217;ancora nei tempi di Lione Decimo Pontefice Massimo ne seguirono dispute sottilissime. N&#233; volsero i Filosofi e gli Astronomi di quel tempo cedere apertamente alla verit&#224;, poco avanti discoperta dai Portoghesi,oi quali desiderando honore e ricchezze, passarono et derono aiuto ad altri che passassero le colonne poste da Ercole antichissimo Re di Spagna e costeggiando questi lidi, scoprissero questi belli paesi, e turbassero la quiete di questi popoli, con fare nuove fortezze e servirsi di essi a nuove arti&#8221;.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>Grazie per aver letto <em>Dettagli</em>, la sezione del blog dedicata all&#8217;osservazione ravvicinata di quadri, sculture, arredi e oggetti di arti applicate e design. 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>&#127468;&#127463; The Cartographic Enterprise of the Guardaroba Nuova: Modernity and Disquietude</strong></p><p>Between 1561 and 1565, an extraordinary chamber emerged within the <strong>Palazzo Vecchio</strong> in Florence: the <em>Sala delle Carte Geografiche</em> (&#8220;Hall of Maps&#8221;). This space was consecrated to the burgeoning corpus of geographical knowledge and the Renaissance impetus for travel, &#8220;discovery,&#8221; and exploration. The project was a multidisciplinary collaboration involving artists, geographers, cabinetmakers, and sculptors, commissioned by <strong>Cosimo I de&#8217; Medici</strong> under the rigorous artistic direction of Giorgio Vasari and the cosmographical guidance of the monk <strong>Fra&#8217; Miniato Pitti</strong>.</p><p>Beyond the decisive contributions of Pitti, the conceptualization of the fifty-three extant panels was entrusted to two monks. These maps illustrate the totality of the <em>oikumene</em> as it was then understood, encompassing the torrid intertropical zones as well as the Arctic and Antarctic regions. This cartographic achievement represents a profound expansion of perspectives relative to the geographical paradigms of Antiquity.</p><p>Indeed, the burgeoning divergence between <strong>Ancient and Modern</strong> thought is an implicit theme of this undertaking, serving as a testament to the &#8220;modernity&#8221; of the Hall. Here, one encounters a tangible manifestation of that epistemological rupture with the Greco-Roman world&#8212;a caesura that the Early Renaissance did not fully perceive, but which resonates powerfully in the late sixteenth century. Conversely, this &#8220;modernity&#8221;&#8212;precipitated by the discovery of the Americas and the desire to transcend the metaphorical &#8220;Pillars of Hercules&#8221; preserved by the Middle Ages&#8212;possessed ambivalent qualities in the eyes of late-Cinquecento geographers, many of whom were also men of the Church.</p><p>The discourse is articulated with striking clarity: the geographical postulates of Ptolemy and other Hellenistic scholars were rendered obsolete, invalidated by the empirical evidence of recent transoceanic voyages. Furthermore, the monk-cartographers readily acknowledged that these perilous expeditions were motivated not by proselytism, but by a &#8220;desire for honor and riches&#8221;&#8212;secular passions inextricably linked to intrinsic ferocity. Consequently, for the populations of Central and Southern Africa or the New World, European expansion was far from a benevolent endeavor; rather, it established the precursors for the deportation and enslavement of entire peoples. Between 1550 and 1551, Charles V convened a Junta in Valladolid to deliberate upon the treatment of the indigenous populations. The debate hinged on a fundamental question: should their humanity be recognized and respected, as advocated by the Dominican bishop Bartolom&#233; de las Casas, or should they be pitilessly subjugated as &#8220;non-persons,&#8221; as proposed by Juan Gin&#233;s de Sep&#250;lveda? Within the Florentine maps&#8212;and specifically in the programmatic inscription transcribed below&#8212;one discerns a vestige of religious anxiety regarding the fate of African and Indigenous peoples.</p><p>However, the prevailing ethos of the Florentine cartographic project is not one of tormented pessimism; instead, it is characterized by a sense of exuberance regarding the vast expansion of maritime routes and intellectual horizons. Of the fifty-three total panels, thirty were executed by the Dominican <strong>Egnazio Danti</strong> between 1564 and 1575, while twenty-three were completed by the Olivetan monk <strong>Stefano Bonsignori </strong>between 1575 and 1586. Notably, only twenty-three panels derive from Ptolemy&#8217;s <em>Geographia</em> (2nd century AD); the remainder, pertaining to the New World and the &#8220;new parts of Africa,&#8221; were synthesized from contemporary sources.</p><p>As previously noted, both the project directors and the cartographers were ecclesiastics belonging to three distinct Orders. Their presence underscores the cohesion of a Christian-Humanist culture&#8212;simultaneously theological, historico-literary, and scientific&#8212;that had yet to experience terminal fragmentation, and which remained resilient despite the transformative image of the world. Furthermore, the enterprise serves as empirical evidence of the artistic and scientific primacy that Florence continued to exert during the waning years of the sixteenth century.</p><p>For pedagogical clarity, I provide below the transcription of the &#8220;programmatic&#8221; cartouche, which is of particular significance to the thematic considerations addressed herein.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Usarono i geografi terminare i paesi da loro non conosciuti con selve horribili, mari non navigabili e monti asprissimi. N&#233; mancarono gli storici di aiutarli, con descrivere costumi di huomini pi&#249; che bestiali, nature d&#8217;animali crudelissimi e impedimenti pericolosissimi, con le quali cose ascondevano la verit&#224; e celavano tanti belli paesi, privando di cos&#236; belle notizie, e spaventando gli huomini di ricercarle. Et a tanti spaventi si aggiungevano le oppinioni de i Filosofi e degli Astronomi, i quali non volevano che tra i tropici e sotto l&#8217;equinozziale si potesse habitare, per il soverchio caldo, n&#233; dentro i cerchi artico e antartico, per il soverchio freddo; Et tanto era indurata questa oppinione nelle menti degli huomini, che ancor&#8217;ancora nei tempi di Lione Decimo Pontefice Massimo ne seguirono dispute sottilissime. N&#233; volsero i Filosofi e gli Astronomi di quel tempo cedere apertamente alla verit&#224;, poco avanti discoperta dai Portoghesi,oi quali desiderando honore e ricchezze, passarono et derono aiuto ad altri che passassero le colonne poste da Ercole antichissimo Re di Spagna e costeggiando questi lidi, scoprissero questi belli paesi, e turbassero la quiete di questi popoli, con fare nuove fortezze e servirsi di essi a nuove arti&#8221;.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1c1e8708-93f7-464d-8518-d3da70ec53ab_1302x1018.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9921cf5e-6339-44e6-b359-4bcde7a5eeb7_1342x1002.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/771388cf-4e61-422a-9d34-ea2cced075c6_1502x2008.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ca1824a-7932-4b40-ac3d-70e8811f9802_549x711.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17e7e053-1038-4188-adfa-b5a36cf1ec71_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>Thank you for reading <em>Details</em>, a blog&#8217;s section dedicated to the close study of paintings, sculpture, furnishings, and the varied artifacts of the applied arts and design. 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