The Federico Zeri Foundation is starting up a new web-page where to publish short essays by art scholars and researchers willing to present to the scientific community research whose documentary core be based on the Foundation’s collections (library, photograph library and archive).
Through a call-for-papers formula, this open space is to become a place where to make public, quickly and in a scientific context, some outcomes of updated studies and where to display the work of young scholars conducting original research activity.

Rare and annotated books, archival material and, especially, the photograph collection (that can be also consulted on-line) are a valuable resource for the scientific community, often used as a basis for unpublished documents, anonymous artworks hitherto unstudied, unknown collectors’ or attributions’ transfers. From their part, scholars update, strengthen or revise information available through the catalogue, by means of these short essays also.

Italian and foreign scholars (researchers, PhDs, PhD candidates, postgraduate students) using the library or the on-line database are encouraged to draw the attention to remarkable study cases, particularly with reference to:

• homeless paintings and unknown locations of artworks, new attributions for paintings and works of art
• consistent series of photographs relevant to new critical conclusions
• photographers documented in the photograph archive
• photograph and art collections and collectors in the photograph archive
• autograph notes and miscellaneous material bound to books or photographs
• critical success of rare books not to be found elsewhere
• links between books and photographs.

• a text of 2/3 pages, in English, or Italian, or French (texts are not going to be translated)
• inventory number and shelf mark for photographs or texts among the Zeri Foundation collection (a link to the database will be provided)
• a short scientific CV of the author (maximum 10 lines).