Carlo Bertelli, Wolvinio e gli angeli. Studi sull'arte medievale
Academy of Architecture
The book is a collection of twelve essays on the history of medieval published since the 1960s in rare editions or in other forms by now hard to obtain. In describing them as «Fragments of life», the author refers not just to the time span they embrace, but also to a common critical purpose: never to lose sight of the concrete object of his work, albeit in a wide range of fields: from late classical to Byzantine, from the miniature to the “minor arts”. A return to these topics, selected by the author himself and in a number of cases revisited for the occasion, affords an opportunity to follow up a critical viewpoint in which rigorous scholarship, faithfulness to “text” and interpretative passion are combined in a uniquely idiosyncratic style.