Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Labirinto della Masone di Franco Maria Ricci, Fontanellato, Italy, April 6-June 30, 2024.
André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance. He was a professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of art and civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, from 1970 to 1984, he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1975. Sylvia Ferino-Pagden is the former Director of the Picture Gallery at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM, Museum of Art History) in Vienna. She studied Art History at Vienna University and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She obtained several research fellowships from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, St. Hugh’s College in Oxford, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute) in Rome. The focus of her career has been the Italian Renaissance and she has been Curator of Italian Renaissance Painting at the KHM since 1988.
