Conférence : Sarah Gwyneth Ross, « Ut pictura comoedia: The Andreini Family and the Arts in Renaissance and Baroque Italy », Rome, Villino Stroganoff, le 21 avril 2026, 18h
Lovers of Italian culture know well a few members of the Andreini family (fl. 1560s-1710s): Isabella, Francesco, Giovan Battista, and Virginia Ramponi. This lecture recovers from the Andreini family archive several new (to us) figures and some surprising connections, especially between the visual arts and the commedia dell’arte. It borders on cliché to point out that the arts and letters remained in close conversation during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Even if early-modern Italians didn’t...
