Resumen de "[...] l'arte è libera per il genio che non soffre vincoli". Fonti, metodo e critica nel "Luca Giordano" di Enzo Petraccone fra Croce e Longhi
"Luca Giordano" by Enzo Petraccone represents the first modern attempt to interpret the work of the great seventeenth century painter and to integrate him into the context of his time. Influenced by the aesthetics of Croce but not without his own judgements, the young scholar wrote the monograph throughout the course of 1914, after having traveled to and found leads in many libraries, archives, museums and private collections. He departed for the war, dying on 15 June 1918 without seeing the publication of his work. Croce went on to edit the version published in 1919 that generally earned positive criticism plus one very bad review which would be influential in future studies: that of Roberto Longhi, a contemporary of Petraccone but aleready an acknowledged reference in Italian criticism, who had criticized te Basilicata scholar's method of reading the works, assessing it as indicative of the author's immaturity. This essay intends to analyze the work of Petraccone focusing on much of the sources and the method adopted for his judgements on Giordano, in an attempt to understand the role he played in successive studies about the painter and the significance of his controversy with Longhi.
