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Huillard-Bréholles and the study of the monuments of Norman-Swabian Apulia
Jean-Louis-Alphonse Huiillard-Bréholles (Paris, 1817-1871) was the author of the literary work entitled Recherches sur les monuments et l’histoire des Normands et de la maison de Souabe dans l’Italie méridionale (172 pages, 35 plates), which was released in Paris in 1844. The writing of the book was commissioned to him by the eighth duke de Luynes (1802-1867), who was a wealthy and generous patron for humanistic sciences and a scholar himself. The beautiful engravings attached to the text were realized on the basis of a series of drawings made by architect Victor Baltard (1805-1874). He was chosen by the duke following the suggestion of Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who was the director of the Académie de France in Rome in the years 1834-1840. By that time, young Baltard used to be one of the pensionnaires of the academy, and enthusiastically accepted to travel to Southern Italy in order to depict Norman, Swabian and Angevine monuments and several views of cities according to the detailed instructions given by the nobleman. The journey took place between May and June 1836, but the drawings could arrive in Paris only in October 1837. In 1840, the engraving representing Castel del Monte by Pierre Eugène Aubert – later on published in the Recherches – was on display at the Musée Royale. When the book was published, the illustrations were reviewed as the most relevant part of the work; on the other hand, the historic essay by Huillard-Bréholles was referred to as a mere compilation, based on previous bibliography, antiquarian sources and local publications. The French historian dealt with the history of Southern Italy from the Norman conquest to the Angevine dynasty, by dividing it into three main sections. Even though – considering the title of the book – he should have focused on history and monuments at the same way, he wrote little about the last ones, limiting himself to the description of them, often referring to Baltard’s drawings and notes, and copying from other well-known authors.
- Premessa
Marina Righetti - Millin, sempre un riferimento
Michel Gras - Aubin-Louis Millin (1759-1818), histoire d’une redécouverte
Laurence Engel - Millin: un’introduzione
Anna Maria D’Achille, Antonio Iacobini - L’archeologo, il pittore e lo scrittore. Aubin-Louis Millin, Franz Ludwig Catel e Astolphe de Custine nel Regno di Napoli
Gennaro Toscano - Les dessins et les relevés du voyage en Italie d’Aubin-Louis Millin conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France: reconstitution virtuelle d’un corpus
Corinne Le Bitouzé - Normanni, Svevi e Angioini nella storiografia europea del Seicento e del Settecento
Kristjan Toomaspoeg - Paesaggi di luce e di pietra in Puglia. La letteratura di viaggio dal XV al XVIII secolo
Fulvia Fiorino Dotoli - Seroux d’Agincourt e l’arte medievale in Puglia
Simona Moretti - Antolini, Desprez, Marvuglia e gli altri. L’Italia del Sud nei disegni per l’Histoire de l’Art di Seroux d’Agincourt
Ilaria Miarelli Mariani - Seroux d’Agincourt e la pittura medievale a Napoli nei disegni della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Paolo di Simone - La riscoperta del battistero di S. Giovanni a Canosa di Puglia nel XVIII secolo
Petra Lamers - Prima e dopo Millin: le porte bronzee d’età normanna in Puglia
Antonio Iacobini, con un’appendice di Anna Maria Martino - Aubin-Louis Millin e la civiltà islamica attraverso disegni e appunti inediti
Arianna D’Ottone Rambach - Millin e i pavimenti figurati dell’Italia meridionale (secoli XI-XII)
Anna Maria D’Achille - Millin e le iscrizioni della Puglia medievale
Cristina Mantegna - Preludio al Voyage pittoresque di Millin: l’arte della Puglia medievale nelle pubblicazioni erudite (secoli XVII-XVIII)
Giovanni Gasbarri - Huillard-Bréholles e lo studio dei monumenti della Puglia normanna e sveva
Elisabetta Scungio - «Die Totalität der Ansicht». Heinrich Wilhelm Schulz e i monumenti della Puglia medievale
Vinni Lucherini - La Puglia preromanica nella storiografia archeologica e artistica: dalla letteratura di viaggio all’Aggiornamento dell’opera di Bertaux
Gioia Bertelli - La riscoperta della pittura bizantina in Puglia
Marina Falla Castelfranchi - L’invenzione del Romanico pugliese: riscoperte, restauri, ripristini dal XVII secolo agli anni Venti del Novecento
Pina Belli D’Elia, Luisa Derosa - Apulia out of Apulia: Apulian Medieval Works of Art in International Museums
Tessa Garton - La riscoperta della Puglia medievale nelle Esposizioni Nazionali di Torino (1898) e di Roma (1911)
Clara Gelao - Conclusioni. Aubin-Louis Millin, l’ultimo dei viaggiatori compilatori
Xavier Barral i Altet - Recensioni
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Manuel Antonio Castiñeiras González - Carla Varela Fernandes, Pero. O mestre das imagens, ca. 1300-1350. Lisboa, Imprimatur, 2016
Manuel Antonio Castiñeiras González - Anna Rosa Calderoni Masetti, Intrecci mediterranei. Pisa tra Maiorca e Bisanzio. Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2017
Gianluca Ameri - Romanesque patrons and processes: design and instrumentality in the art and architecture of Romanesque Europe, a cura di Jordi Camps, Manuel Castiñeiras, John McNeill, Richard Plant, London-New York, Routledge, 2018
Gaetano Curzi - Xavier Barral i Altet, Els Banys “àrabs” de Girona. Estudi sobre els banys públics i privats a les ciutats medievals.
Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2018
Manuel Antonio Castiñeiras González