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LA DIANA is the journal of the School of Specialization in Art History of the University of Siena (SSBSA), now in a new online edition. A space for discussion of the research work carried out by the School, it is open to contributions of Italian and international scholars interested in sharing the results of their investigations in a transgenerational perspective.

LA DIANA supports and promotes different views on contemporary practices of art history, within a special attention to the contexts of production and reception of artworks and to the history of culture and ideas.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Davide Lacagnina, University of Siena, Italy

Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Siena | Registro dei Periodici n. 4 del 26/02/2021, Direttore responsabile Sara Lilliu

ISSN: 2784-9597


The Call for Papers is out now and submissions can be handed in till October 31, 2024. 
All information are in the Call for Papers Section

Current IssueNo 11 (2026): La Toscana della Restaurazione come crocevia internazionale: mercato artistico, collezionismo, critica, tutela, conservazione

Published July 15, 2026

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Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial
Davide Lacagnina
6-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4296
Introduction
Mattia Barana, Roberto Bartalini, Davide Lacagnina
8-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4300

Studies

Sir Charles Eastlake, the National Gallery and the Tuscan ‘primitives’. Pursuing the Oldest Masters for the Newest Ends
Susanna Avery-Quash
19-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4301
‘A chosen few’: Lady Eastlake and the appreciation of early Florentine art
Julie Sheldon
43-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4302
Florence, Charles Eastlake, and the Restoration of Renaissance Paintings
Matthew Hayes
63-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4303
Walking in Florence: Genres of Knowledge in the Italian Journals of Susan Horner 1847–1848 and 1861–1862
Clare Pettitt
83-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4304
Ugo Baldi (1800-1870): A Painter-Restorer, «piuttosto unico che raro», between the Art Trade and Conservation
Mattia Barana
113-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4306
The Beato Angelico ‘Franciscan Triptych’ in the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Suppressions: Nineteenth-Century Restorations at the Certosa del Galluzzo
Elena Marta Manzi
158-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4307
Notes on Johann Anton Ramboux’s Letters to Carlo Pini, with a Focus on Spinello Aretino’s Olivetan Polyptych
Elisa Bruttini
188-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/ladiana-4308
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