Intorno a Giovanni da Udine. Circolazione di linguaggi e riferimenti all’antico. Around Giovanni da Udine. Circulation of Languages and all’Antica References

Giovanni da Udine (1487-1561) has enjoyed until now a relatively modest notoriety among Renaissance artists; or rather, he has always been much cited with reference to stucco works, grotesques, and his collaboration with Raphael, starting from Vasari, who described him as the “reformer and almost inventor of stuccoes and other grotesques” (1568) and magnified these skills also in other Vite, such as in those of Raphael and of Perino del Vaga. However, some much-needed insights into other aspects regarding his training and activity, especially as an architect, of this multifaceted Italian Renaissance artist have remained little explored. This monographic issue of Opus thus collects some of the results of this study trip and of the subsequent seminar entitled Intorno a Giovanni da Udine. Circolazione di linguaggi e riferimenti all’antico organised in April 2022 by the same Ceriani Sebregondi and Bulfone Gransinigh, under the patronage of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, the Department of Architecture of the University “Gabriele d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, and the Scientific Association “Palazzo Cappello” - International Centre for the Decoration and Restoration of Baroque and Neoclassical Decorative Apparatuses. Other additional contributions from foreign scholars have been added to these essays, thus offering an updated picture of the current state of studies around this figure.