Ricerche di S/Confine (Dec 2017)
Il tardogotico estense tra critica e mercato dell'arte
Abstract
In the present contribution are examined some cases of the dispersion of the Ferrarese historic and artistic heritage of the late-gothic age and the pedigrees of these works of art in the 19th and 20th centuries till their arrival to the present day locations. In more general sense are analysed the cultural climate of Ferrara and the reasons for this heavy impoverishment of the artistic contexts of the age preceding the Renaissance one. This loss of the works of art is due to the dominating taste for the golden ages of the so-called Officina ferrarese and, also, to the destruction or dismantling yet during the 17th and 18th centuries of the waste majority of the Medieval Ferrarese monumental complexes. In clear countertendency and anticipating the times (as long before the legendary exhibition Mostra della pittura ferrarese – Exhibition of the Ferrarese painting – of 1933, the determinant factor to revaluate the pre-Renaissance artist of the school of Ferrara), must be considered the scholarly career at the Bologna University of the young Filippo de Pisis and his much more precocious journalistic activity relative to the themes here examined. One of the rare moments of the partial compensation to this limited sensibility of Ferrarese milieu to the proper “primitives” is the worthy activity in acquisition of the works of art by the local Bank – the Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara in the second half of the 20th century.
