Controversy and peace on the “Grechetto”

Giovanni Agosti e Jacopo Stoppa
The exhibition Il meraviglioso mondo della natura held at the Palazzo Reale in Milan between spring and summer of 2019 provoked a lively debate. Curated by the authors of the article, the exhibition reconstructed the so-called Sala del Grechetto from Palazzo Visconti (then Lonati and Verri), a large hall decorated with vast canvases representing Orpheus, Bacchus and some two hundred animal species. In the 18th century the hall belonged to the Verri family, though was very probably designed by Alessandro Visconti, huntsman of Ferdinando II de' Medici, in the second half of the previous century. The work of reconstructing the setting, carried out by Margherita Palli and Pasquale Mari, started up a debate over its actual appropriateness, on the use of the rebuilt complex for public fruition and more in general on the authority, or otherwise, of art historians to be involved in the reconstruction of settings.

Index

Alessandro Bagnoli Mariano d'Agnolo Romanelli and the Reliquary of Pope Mark: the return of enamelling 'a figure risparmiate' in the late Trecento
read abstract » pag. 3-11
Elisabetta Cioni For Matteo di Mino di Pagliaio. New considerations on the Sienese goldsmith's art in the second half of the Trecento
read abstract » pag. 12-46
Maria Falcone On the Tomb monument of Margaret of Brabant, the Tomb of Doge Tommaso Campofregoso and other Ligurian works of the Quattrocento
read abstract » pag. 47-89
Gianluca Amato The 'Dead Christ' by Francesco di Giorgio at Santa Maria dei Servi in Siena
read abstract » pag. 90-141
Annamaria Petrioli Tofani For a catalogue of drawings by Agostino Melissi at the Uffizi
read abstract » pag. 142-173
Gianmarco Russo Longhi, reader of Vasari
read abstract » pag. 174-199
Anna Santucci A 'Pseudo-Vitellius' in the Uffizi Gallery (and other 'Pseudo-Vitellius' busts in Florence between the 16th and the 19th century)
read abstract » pp. 200-217
Jörg Deterling An 'Apollo' relief from the Giustiniani collection
read abstract » pag. 218-220
Anna Anguissola Observations on the catalogue of the Dresden sculptures: the case of the “four ancient small young fauns”
read abstract » pag. 221-225
Valentina Balzarotti Pellegrino Tibaldi in the church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia
read abstract » pag. 226-232
Giovanni Renzi Two works by Camillo Procaccini in Tuscany and an episode in the history of collectionism
read abstract » pag. 233-251
Luca Fiorentino Cornelis de Bie and Gian Lorenzo Bernini: observations regarding the critical fortune of Bernini in the Seicento
read abstract » pag. 252-261
Giovanni Agosti e Jacopo Stoppa Controversy and peace on the “Grechetto”
read abstract » pag. 262-273
Giovanni Agosti For Enzo Mengaldo, between two languages
read abstract » pag. 274-282