Author: Stefania Cretella

P.R.I.N. 2017

Community identity between museums, great decoration in public buildings and the city: sources, projects, collections, iconographic themes and strategies for self-representation in the nineteenth and twentieth...

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P.R.I.N. 2010-2011

  The profane painting from Baroque Age to Neoclassic Age in Northern Italy, with particular attention to the presence of Veneto and Venetian painters. The research...

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Orizzonti d’acqua tra Pittura e Arti Decorative. Galileo Chini e altri protagonisti del primo Novecento, exhibition catalogue (Pontedera, Palp, 8th December 2018- 28th April 2019) curated by Filippo Bacci di Capaci and Maurizia Bonatti Bacchini, Bandecchi & Vivaldi Editions, Pontedera, 2018 (ISBN 9788883417207)

Catalogue realized for the exhibition at Palazzo Pretorio in Pontedera (PALP) from 8th December 2018 to 28th April 2019. The exhibition is focused on the artworks...

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Sul lago di Garda tra passato e futuro. Le Arti. First volume, Conference acts (Salò, Liceo Fermi, 6th February 2015) curated by the Salò Athenaeum, Liber Edizioni, Brescia, 2018 (ISBN 9788836639120)

It’s popular opinion that at the expire of hundred, or at least only fifty years, they should be remembered with the most updated criteria of literature,...

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Art Déco. Gli anni ruggenti in Italia, exhibition catalogue (Forlì, Museums San Domenico, 11th February – 18th June 2017) curated by Valerio Terraroli, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2017 (ISBN: 9799936635450)

The Art Déco is not just a way to design and create objects, decorations, places, architecture, but it’s a taste, a behaviour, a language that, betraying...

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Stefania Cretella, La grande stagione neoclassica a Brescia: il rinnovamento di palazzo Averoldi, in “Ricche Minere”, n.6, december 2016, pp. 121-144 (ISSN: 2284-1717)

  The article takes in exam the painted frescoes in the main floor of the Sixteenth-century Averoldi building in Brescia, transformed into one of the most...

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Stefania Cretella, Il Ridotto del Teatro Grande di Brescia, with contributions by Valerio Terraroli and Marco Fasser, Grafo, Brescia, 2016 (ISBN: 9788873859631)

The Big Theatre in Brescia conserves inside one of the most significant testimonies of the rococo painting in the city. Near the theatrical room there is...

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Alfons Mucha e le atmosfere art nouveau, exhibition catalogue (Milan, Palazzo Reale, 10th December 2015- 20th March 2016), curated by Stefania Cretella, Karel Srp, 24 Ore Cultura, Milano, 2015 (ISBN: 9788866483007)

    24 Ore Cultura publishes the catalogue of the exhibition Alfons Mucha and the Art Nouveau atmosphere, hosted in the rooms of Palazzo Reale in...

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Water Horizons between Painting and Decorative Arts. Galileo Chini and other protagonists of the beginning of Twentieth century

Since 8th December 2018, the PALP (Palazzo Pretorio of Pontedera) is the location of the exhibition Water Horizons between Painting and Decorative Arts. Galileo Chini and...

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Art Déco. The Roaring Twenties in Italy

A taste, an allure, a language which characterized Italian and European artistic production in the Twenties and had, above all, American results after 1929. The generalised...

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