L'"Omaggio a Pietro Toesca" di Roberto Longhi: più che un omaggio, un testa a testa fra maestri

• Autores: Carmela Vargas
• Localización: Confronto: studi e ricerche di storia dell'arte europea, ISSN 1721-6745, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 13-30
• Idioma: italiano
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  • L'"Omaggio" (the "Tribute")recalls the cultural biography of Pietro Toesca, Longhi's own mentor, referring to the historiographical tradition of the second half of the nineteenth century, the period in which the former underwent his initial training. Longhi cites both Toesca's main studies about Medieval and Modern Art History, and the political commitment he expressed in public istitutions. Longhi's argument, albeit full of positive remarks, is characterised by subtle allusions about a certain number of differences in their methodology, especially in what Longhi himself wrote about the same issues covered by Toesca. This essay is focused on two significant aspects of the relationship between the two scholars: the period of Toesca's education, strikingly different from Longhi's, and some works about the Italian fifteenth century, in both cases bringing out a kind of debt Longhi might never have fully recognized to Toesca.