The historic journal Art Criticism founded by Ragghianti and Bianchi Bandinelli resumes. Outgoing new series

It was September 2018 when the Ragghianti Foundation announced the acquisition of the historic Art Criticism from the International University of Art in Florence, which had been responsible for its publication with the publishing house Le Lettere until 2016. After the first series of the new course (the eighth overall), now the historic journal founded in 1935 by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli is preparing to launch the ninth, which will be published in coedition by Edizioni Fondazione Ragghianti Studi sull’arte and Editoriale Le Lettere.

The journal will retain the format of the previous series, but a layout and articulation have been introduced that differ in part: however, the desire to stick faithfully to the line already indicated in the past by Ragghianti remains. In the new issue it will therefore be possible to find contributions on art history from prehistory to contemporary art, the history of art criticism, architecture, design, museology, restoration and cinema, divided into two sections: Essays, with long and wide-ranging texts, and Notes, with short articles for clarifications or philological fine-tuning. And again, there is the Observatory section with papers on cultural and university policy and current affairs and heritage protection, and the Library section, which hosts book reviews and catalogs.

The first issue of 2019 contains essays by Ezio Bassani (on the ancient musical instruments of Black Africa), Elena Filippi (the “Sapientia” in the north at the time of Maximilian I of Habsburg), Sidonie Lemeux-Fraitot (on the collaboration between Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and François-Joseph Noël), Paolo Bolpagni (on Luigi Veronesi’s “scenic visualizations”), Matilde Stefanini (the history of “thread” from tapestry to Fiber Art). For the Notes section, however, we read contributions by Marco Collareta (on Gisulfo’s jewel in Cividale del Friuli), Antonino Caleca (on Nicola Pisano’s pulpit in Pisa Cathedral), Anna Rosa Calderoni Masetti (on the presence of Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in Genoa), Francesco Gurrieri (on the centenary of the Bauhahus), Mattia Patti (on an abstract painting by Osvaldo Licini), and finally for theObservatory articles by Antonio Caleca (on seeing “natural”), Marco Fagioli (postilla on Avantgarde!), Gigetta Dalli Regoli (on the Verrocchio exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi) and Chiara Savattieri (on the exhibition Le modèle noir de Géricault à Matisse).

The Scientific Committee has been expanded and made even more prestigious and international: it is joined by an Editorial Committee, with operational and steering functions. The journal declares itself open and takes the opportunity to launch a permanent call of papers, to solicit contributions from interested scholars, according to the programmatic openness of interests that was peculiar to Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. The journal accepts contributions in Italian, English, French and Spanish: texts, of an exclusively scientific nature, should be sent to the attention of the editorial board in the form of abstracts with full name, qualification and affiliation. Journals will be screened by the committee, accepting them or not and allocating them to the first available issue (you must send your text to Critica d’Arte c/o Fondazione Ragghianti, via San Micheletto 3, 55100 Lucca).

The journal comes out with two double issues per year, subscription costs 125 euros for Italy and 160 for abroad (for individuals), while for institutions the costs are 150 euros for Italy and 180 for abroad. Individual issues cost 70 euros. For purchases and subscriptions, contact Editoriale Le Lettere, via Meucci, 19 - 50012 Bagno a Ripoli (Florence), tel. 055 645103, www.lelettere.it, periodici@lelettere.it, abbonamenti.distribuzione@editorialefirenze.it. Annual subscriptions can be taken out at any time of the year by payment to CCP No. 1037409925 made out to Editoriale s.r.l.

The journal is directed by Francesco Gurrieri, the Editorial Board is composed of Paolo Bolpagni, Antonino Caleca, Marco Collareta, Francesco Gurrieri, Maria Teresa Leoni Zanobini, Mattia Patti and Chiara Savettieri, while the Scientific Committee is formed by Fabrizio Franco Vittorio Arrigoni, Julia Barroso, Johannes Beltz, Fabio Benzi, Andrea Branzi, Marco Brizzi, Giorgio Busetto, Francesco Paolo Campione, Richard Yerachmiel Cohen, Lorenzo Cuccu, Gigetta Dalli Regoli, Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, Maria del Mar Díaz, Francesco Di Chiara, Cristina Donati, Annamaria Ducci, Marco Fagioli, Elena Filippi, Francesca Flores d’Arcais, Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel, Pietro Graziani, Philippe Junod, Alessandra Lischi, Cesare Molinari, Adolfo Natalini, Antonio Paolucci, Emanuele Pellegrini, Marco Pierini, Piero Pierotti, Carlo Arturo Quintavalle, Roland Recht, Federica Rovati, Francesco Tedeschi, Maria Laura Testi Cristiani, Ranieri Varese, Timothy Verdon, Edoardo Villata, Adachiara Zevi.

The historic journal Art Criticism founded by Ragghianti and Bianchi Bandinelli resumes. Outgoing new series

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