Realismo in ontologia, idealismo in arte. Una tensione mortale

The aim of this paper is to discuss the theoretical structure of the philosophy of art sketched by Arthur Danto and it suggests a possible reconsideration of his theory involving the role of the aesthetics in the philosophy of art. The aesthetics – this is the main thesis of the paper – may usefully integrate the researches in the philosophy of art, also in the Dantian‟s theory, trough the study of the structure of the human perception, which is a fundamental part of the human cognition, as well as of the main features of the aesthetics proprieties of the works of art.