D Domenici
Biographic Data
| ID | 53070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Domenici |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Domenici |
| SIGNATURE | DOMENICI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8469-3390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enhancing access and understanding of ancient manuscripts: The 3D Digital Edition of the Codex Cospi
Mixtec social memory in Late Renaissance Rome: Ulisse Aldrovandi, Tommaso de' Cavalieri, and 'the skull of an Indian king
The article discusses the contents of a series of post-1577 manuscripts in which the Bolognese polymath Ulisse Aldrovandi described the collection of naturalia and artificialia held in Rome by Tommaso de' Cavalieri. After describing the various Mesoamerican objects in the collection, the article focuses on a mosaic-encrusted skull whose arrival in Italy had previously been described in an Italian source entitled Descrittione dell'India occidental…
El color del canto. El paralelismo en la pintura teotihuacana
La relación entre expresiones pictóricas y correspondientes enunciaciones orales es un tema ampliamente debatido en los estudios mesoamericanos, en donde la discusión se ha centrado mayoritariamente sobre los códices posclásicos y coloniales. Buscando profundizar el horizonte cronológico de este tipo de estudios, el presente artículo discute algunas pinturas murales teotihuacanas con el objetivo de identificar posibles correspondencias estructura…
Rediscovery of a Mesoamerican greenstone sculpture from the collection of Ulisse Aldrovandi
This article presents a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican greenstone sculpture, formerly held in the collection of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605) and recently rediscovered by the author in the storerooms of the Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna. After a discussion of Aldrovandi’s general attitude towards natural and cultural specimens from the New World, the article explores the ways in which the Bolognese polymath described and illustrated the sculpture …
The Wind God and the Descent of the Tzitzimitl: New Insights on the Iconography and Provenance of the Mosaic-Encrusted Bird Head at the Friedenstein Palace, Gotha, Germany
The Friedenstein Palace in Gotha, Germany, holds a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican bird head sculpture made of wood encrusted with precious stone and shell mosaic. Although known since the nineteenth century, scholars have not given the artifact the attention it deserves. Based on observations made during a thorough in situ inspection, we provide a detailed description of the object, stressing both technological and aesthetic aspects, documented th…
Tasting Clay, Testing Clay. Medicinal Earths, Bucarophagy and Experiential Knowledge in Lorenzo Legati’s Museo Cospiano (1677)
In the following, I identify a group of pottery vases in the Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna as samples of búcaros de Indias, the famous “scented clays” produced during the 17th century. Starting from this new identification, thispaper reconstructs their cultural biography, tracing it back to the famous museum assembled by the Bolognese Marquee Ferdinando Cospi. The description of the vases provided by Lorenzo Legati in his Museo Cospiano (1677…
Codex Mendoza and the Material Agency of Indigenous Artists in Early Colonial New Spain
The paper, part of a dialogue on materiality in New Spain art, comments the results obtained from chemical analyses performed on the colonial Mexican manuscript known as Codex Mendoza in order to rflect on indigenous artists' material choices during the early colonial period in New Spain. Such choices, far form being the result of a passive reception of European-induced technological changes, reveal a great deal of material agency by the indigeno…
Cultural and Historical Implications of Non-destructive Analyses on Mesoamerican Codices in the Bodleian Libraries
Beyond Dichotomies: Teotihuacan and the Mesoamerican Urban Tradition
Baños de vapor en sitios arqueológicos zoques. Nuevos datos desde el occidente de Chiapas
Las excavaciones arqueológicas llevadas a cabo por el Proyecto Arqueológico Río La Venta en la Selva El Ocote, Chiapas, han permitido investigar varios baños de vapor en sitios zoques fechados entre el Clásico Tardío-Terminal y el Posclásico Tardío; entre ellos destaca un monumental baño de vapor rectangular del periodo Clásico Tardío-Terminal, ubicado en el centro del sitio arqueológico de El Higo. Este temazcal es casi idéntico a los previament…
Further Insight into Mesoamerican Paint Technology: Unveiling the Colour Palette of the Pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer by Means of Non‐invasive Analysis
Here, we report on the analytical findings and their cultural implications of a multidisciplinary study of the pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer. Today conserved at the World Museum in Liverpool, it is one of the finest Mesoamerican codices among the few extant. Thanks to the exploitation of non‐invasive analytical methodologies accessible through the MOLAB European mobile facility, the study allowed us to disclose the chemical composition of t…
The Descrittione dell'India occidentale, a Sixteenth-Century Source on the Italian Reception of Mesoamerican Material Culture
This article discusses the Descrittione dell'India occidentale, a neglected Italian sixteenth-century anonymous and undated text that describes a set of Mesoamerican artifacts brought from Mexico to Italy by an anonymous priest. The text contains data on Mesoamerican material culture, on its Italian reception, and on its contribution to the formation of an early modern corpus of ethnographic knowledge. Herein I provide an analysis of the text, re…
The wandering ' Leg of an Indian King '. The cultural biography of a friction idiophone now in the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy
The article presents new data on the history of a Mesoamerican musical instrument, which is a notched human bone used as a friction idiophone, today, held at the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy, where it is recorded as MNPE n. 4209. The documentary data allow for the reconstruction of the instrument's cultural biography along a time span of almost five centuries. Collected in the Mixtec Kingdom of Tututepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) during the 16th century…
Non-invasive investigation of a pre-Hispanic Maya screenfold book: The Madrid Codex
Colouring materials of pre-Columbian codices: Non-invasive in situ spectroscopic analysis of the Codex Cospi
Colouring materials of pre-Columbian codices: Non-invasive in situ spectroscopic analysis of the Codex Cospi
Non-invasive investigation of a pre-Hispanic Maya screenfold book: The Madrid Codex
The Descrittione dell'India occidentale, a Sixteenth-Century Source on the Italian Reception of Mesoamerican Material Culture
This article discusses the Descrittione dell'India occidentale, a neglected Italian sixteenth-century anonymous and undated text that describes a set of Mesoamerican artifacts brought from Mexico to Italy by an anonymous priest. The text contains data on Mesoamerican material culture, on its Italian reception, and on its contribution to the formation of an early modern corpus of ethnographic knowledge. Herein I provide an analysis of the text, re…
The wandering ' Leg of an Indian King '. The cultural biography of a friction idiophone now in the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy
The article presents new data on the history of a Mesoamerican musical instrument, which is a notched human bone used as a friction idiophone, today, held at the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy, where it is recorded as MNPE n. 4209. The documentary data allow for the reconstruction of the instrument's cultural biography along a time span of almost five centuries. Collected in the Mixtec Kingdom of Tututepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) during the 16th century…
Further Insight into Mesoamerican Paint Technology: Unveiling the Colour Palette of the Pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer by Means of Non‐invasive Analysis
Here, we report on the analytical findings and their cultural implications of a multidisciplinary study of the pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer. Today conserved at the World Museum in Liverpool, it is one of the finest Mesoamerican codices among the few extant. Thanks to the exploitation of non‐invasive analytical methodologies accessible through the MOLAB European mobile facility, the study allowed us to disclose the chemical composition of t…
Colouring materials of pre-Columbian codices: Non-invasive in situ spectroscopic analysis of the Codex Cospi
Non-invasive investigation of a pre-Hispanic Maya screenfold book: The Madrid Codex
The wandering ' Leg of an Indian King '. The cultural biography of a friction idiophone now in the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy
The article presents new data on the history of a Mesoamerican musical instrument, which is a notched human bone used as a friction idiophone, today, held at the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy, where it is recorded as MNPE n. 4209. The documentary data allow for the reconstruction of the instrument's cultural biography along a time span of almost five centuries. Collected in the Mixtec Kingdom of Tututepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) during the 16th century…
The Descrittione dell'India occidentale, a Sixteenth-Century Source on the Italian Reception of Mesoamerican Material Culture
This article discusses the Descrittione dell'India occidentale, a neglected Italian sixteenth-century anonymous and undated text that describes a set of Mesoamerican artifacts brought from Mexico to Italy by an anonymous priest. The text contains data on Mesoamerican material culture, on its Italian reception, and on its contribution to the formation of an early modern corpus of ethnographic knowledge. Herein I provide an analysis of the text, re…
Cultural and Historical Implications of Non-destructive Analyses on Mesoamerican Codices in the Bodleian Libraries
Beyond Dichotomies: Teotihuacan and the Mesoamerican Urban Tradition
Baños de vapor en sitios arqueológicos zoques. Nuevos datos desde el occidente de Chiapas
Las excavaciones arqueológicas llevadas a cabo por el Proyecto Arqueológico Río La Venta en la Selva El Ocote, Chiapas, han permitido investigar varios baños de vapor en sitios zoques fechados entre el Clásico Tardío-Terminal y el Posclásico Tardío; entre ellos destaca un monumental baño de vapor rectangular del periodo Clásico Tardío-Terminal, ubicado en el centro del sitio arqueológico de El Higo. Este temazcal es casi idéntico a los previament…
Further Insight into Mesoamerican Paint Technology: Unveiling the Colour Palette of the Pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer by Means of Non‐invasive Analysis
Here, we report on the analytical findings and their cultural implications of a multidisciplinary study of the pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer. Today conserved at the World Museum in Liverpool, it is one of the finest Mesoamerican codices among the few extant. Thanks to the exploitation of non‐invasive analytical methodologies accessible through the MOLAB European mobile facility, the study allowed us to disclose the chemical composition of t…
Codex Mendoza and the Material Agency of Indigenous Artists in Early Colonial New Spain
The paper, part of a dialogue on materiality in New Spain art, comments the results obtained from chemical analyses performed on the colonial Mexican manuscript known as Codex Mendoza in order to rflect on indigenous artists' material choices during the early colonial period in New Spain. Such choices, far form being the result of a passive reception of European-induced technological changes, reveal a great deal of material agency by the indigeno…
Tasting Clay, Testing Clay. Medicinal Earths, Bucarophagy and Experiential Knowledge in Lorenzo Legati’s Museo Cospiano (1677)
In the following, I identify a group of pottery vases in the Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna as samples of búcaros de Indias, the famous “scented clays” produced during the 17th century. Starting from this new identification, thispaper reconstructs their cultural biography, tracing it back to the famous museum assembled by the Bolognese Marquee Ferdinando Cospi. The description of the vases provided by Lorenzo Legati in his Museo Cospiano (1677…
El color del canto. El paralelismo en la pintura teotihuacana
La relación entre expresiones pictóricas y correspondientes enunciaciones orales es un tema ampliamente debatido en los estudios mesoamericanos, en donde la discusión se ha centrado mayoritariamente sobre los códices posclásicos y coloniales. Buscando profundizar el horizonte cronológico de este tipo de estudios, el presente artículo discute algunas pinturas murales teotihuacanas con el objetivo de identificar posibles correspondencias estructura…
Rediscovery of a Mesoamerican greenstone sculpture from the collection of Ulisse Aldrovandi
This article presents a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican greenstone sculpture, formerly held in the collection of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605) and recently rediscovered by the author in the storerooms of the Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna. After a discussion of Aldrovandi’s general attitude towards natural and cultural specimens from the New World, the article explores the ways in which the Bolognese polymath described and illustrated the sculpture …
The Wind God and the Descent of the Tzitzimitl: New Insights on the Iconography and Provenance of the Mosaic-Encrusted Bird Head at the Friedenstein Palace, Gotha, Germany
The Friedenstein Palace in Gotha, Germany, holds a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican bird head sculpture made of wood encrusted with precious stone and shell mosaic. Although known since the nineteenth century, scholars have not given the artifact the attention it deserves. Based on observations made during a thorough in situ inspection, we provide a detailed description of the object, stressing both technological and aesthetic aspects, documented th…
Mixtec social memory in Late Renaissance Rome: Ulisse Aldrovandi, Tommaso de' Cavalieri, and 'the skull of an Indian king
The article discusses the contents of a series of post-1577 manuscripts in which the Bolognese polymath Ulisse Aldrovandi described the collection of naturalia and artificialia held in Rome by Tommaso de' Cavalieri. After describing the various Mesoamerican objects in the collection, the article focuses on a mosaic-encrusted skull whose arrival in Italy had previously been described in an Italian source entitled Descrittione dell'India occidental…
Enhancing access and understanding of ancient manuscripts: The 3D Digital Edition of the Codex Cospi
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