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Book presentation La via dei Retabli.

Giovanna Damiani, director of the Polo Museale of Sardinia, and Roberto Concas, Director of the Pinacoteca Nazionale and the Museo Archeologico of Cagliari, are presenting the book titled La via dei Retabli. The European borders of the painted altars during the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries written by Caterina Limentani Virdis and Maria Vittoria Spissu.

The book illustrates the retabli, precious altarpieces painted on gold background, very common in the Sardinian churches of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. A detailed description supported by colored cards and tables, alternated by essays about the historical, political, and commercial context in the territory of the Crown of Aragon, and during the empire of Carlo V.  Completed by images of iconographic comparison, indexes, and bibliographic study system. A great section is dedicated to the retabli of the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Cagliari, which represent a single corpus of great historical-artistic value. Maria Vittoria Spissu of the University of Bologna, one of the authors, and Carlo Delfino, the editor, will attend the presentation.

Admittance for the event is free.