Full Name: Bertelli, Carlo
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): Christianity, eighth century (dates CE), painting (visual works), and sixth century (dates CE)
Overview
His La Madonna di Santa Maria in Trastevere redated a pivotal panel of painting in the church from the sixth to the eighth century, arguing against the dating of Cesare Brandi. Brandi’s date has subsequently proven correct.
Selected Bibliography
La Madonna di Santa Maria in Trastevere: storia, iconografia, stile di un dipinto romano dell’ottavo secolo. Rome: s.n., 1961; Piero della Francesca. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992; and Cavallo, Guglielmo. Rotoli di exultet dell’Italia meridionale. Exultet 1, 2, benedizionale dell’Archivio della cattedrale di Bari. Exultet 1, 2, 3 dell’Archivio capitolare di Troia. Bari: Adriatica, 1973; and Maetzke, Anna Maria, and Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Piero della Francesca: the Legend of the True Cross in the Church of San Francesco, Arezzo. New York: Rizzoli/St. Martin’s Press, 2000; and Briganti, Giuliano, and Giuliano, Antonio, eds. Storia dell’arte italiana. 5 vols. Milan: Electa : B. Mondadori, 1986.
Sources
[cited] Previtali, Giovanni. “The Periodization of Italian Art History.” History of Italian Art. vol. 2 Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994, p. 16, note 17.