Castel Roncolo dopo Niklaus Vintler. Alcune considerazioni sulla cronologia degli affreschi della Casa d’Estate

The author presents a general review of the cycles of mural paintings at Castel Roncolo, just north of Bolzano. Bearing in mind new biographical studies on the Vintler family (to whom the commission of these paintings is usually attributed, around 1400) and the recent rediscovery of some late mediaeval secular paintings in Northern Italy, Switzerland and Austria, it is now possible to suggest a new chronology for the extensive figurative programme at Castel Roncolo. The dates proposed here prompt a reconsideration of the exclusive role played by the Vintlers as patrons of this decorative cycle, and pose new questions regarding the reception and spread of the technique of terra verde painting in the Tyrol.