Tra Arslan e Longhi. La Lombardia di Maria Luisa Ferrari. (Corsican)

Even though in the last few years we have witnessed a general rediscovery of female artists, the same has not happened for female Italian art historians whom have contributed in the art history making of the XX century. On the occasion of this conference I meant to remember Maria Luisa Ferrari, born in Cremona in 1929. No mention of her even in the endless internet world, no page passing on her biography and most important studies, starting from her dissertation thesis, discussed in Pavia with Edoardo Arslan in 1954, on the painter Giovan Pietro da Cemmo, published in Milan two years later. I hereby present some unpublished excerpts part of the correspondence with her first mentor, from which power games and "religion wars" among different art history schools of thought strongly emerge. My paper is dedicated to the human and professional events of the scholar and to the fundamental importance of her work for the period and in future perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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