La pittura nel XIV e XV secolo. Il contributo dell'analisi tecnica alla storia dell'arte

It is becoming increasingly common nowadays to hear art historians bewail the lack of the grand design, the monumental scheme, the “Grossgehirnen” of yesteryear. Art history students seeking the certainty of a comprehensive vision may find themeselves sitting at the feet of shallow theoreticians whose knowledge of current art-historical research is based solely on hearsay. Is there innovation in art history? There is, but that is just the problem - it has become pluriform. So great is the pluriformity, in fact, that the very idea of postulating an ideological or methodological denominator common to all the activities covered by the term “art history” has become parently absurd… (dall’Introduzione di Henk W. van Os)