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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Warwick
Felsina Pittrice o Vita de’ pittori bolognesi (1678). Vol. 1, Early Bolognese Painting
This volume issues from the Malvasia Project, conducted under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, of which Pericolo is the Coordinator. (The project will publish the Felsina in sixteen volumes, for each of which Pericolo will provide the critical edition.) Pericolo was sole author of the Introduction, pp. 159-67; and of one third of the historical notes, pp. 268-301 and 354-79. Pericolo edited the Italian text pp. 169-267 (even pages only); and the Scritti originali, pp. 303-53).
Malvasia’s Felsina Pittrice (1678) is the most important source on Bolognese painting from the Carracci to Guido Reni, and from Guercino to Domenichino. Malvasia’s biographies are an indispensable tool for understanding Bolognese art from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. The Felsina is also crucial historiographically, ranking alongside Vasari and Bellori. Despite its extraordinary significance, there has never been either a critical edition or an English translation. This edition provides both, and is based on all existing manuscripts and printed versions, the Scritti originali, Malvasia’s manuscript notes, and the Schede autografe (his glosses to his own copy of the text).
