The development of painting in Emilia Romagna in the 16th century, through analysis of major historical-artistic themes, with a fine selection of illustrations.
[The 1500s / Volume I] The first volume on 16th-century painting in Emilia Romagna discusses the aesthetic results of this period, analyzing historical-artistic themes of great interest: the influence of Nordic painting in the late 15th and early 16th century, the fashion of antiquity and the success of Raphael, the relationship between art and literature, the feminine presence, the spread of portraiture and genre painting, the metamorphoses of the altarpiece, tenets after Trent, the role of the artist in society, the city of Bologna in the 1560s-80s.