Raphael in Reproductions

Zusatztext

This book focuses on reproductions and the reception of Raphael. The debate around reproductions touches on several aspects of visual studies. From a manual copy to digital photographic reproductions, these images can involve debates about image circulation, aesthetic mediation, museological and curatorial registry, cultural structions and, very often, instrumentalization of an original work and its multiple values. The studies included in the volume cover many of these aspects, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before the advent of the digital image. This period marks the development of the idea of high fidelity in art reproductions as well as the widespread diffusion of popular, cheap images related to art history.

Autorenportrait

Davide Scotto works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Asia, Africa and Mediterranean Studies of the University of Naples L'Orientale within the ERC Project "The European Qur'an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion, 1150-1850" (EuQu). He specializes in the study of Christian interactions with Judaism and Islam in premodern Europe and the Mediterranean. He has studied Church history in Turin (BA), medieval history in Pavia (MA), and philology in Florence (PhD). Between 2013 and 2021, he has worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Center for Islamic Theology of the University of Tübingen, the Department of History of the University of Basel, and the Department of History of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Moreover, he has participated in the ERC Project "Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics and Interaction. Early Modern Iberia and Beyond" (CORPI) based at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) of Madrid and has been a visiting lecturer at the Department for the Study of Religions of the Masaryk University of Brno. He is an editorial assistant of the Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa and, in 2019, was among the co-founders of the Centro di Studi Interreligiosi based at the Collegio Borromeo, Pavia.

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