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General Director for Libraries, Cultural Institutes and Authors’ Rights
Maurizio Fallace
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
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Paesaggio Belle arti
Architettura e Arte
Contemporanee
General Director for Landscape, Fine Arts, Contemporary Architecture and Arts
Roberto Cecchi
Director of the Centre for Books and Reading
Flavia Cristiano
Organisation
Anna Maria Bove
Coordination and editing
Stefania Segarelli
Bibliographic sources
Carla Necci
Cinzia Simonetti
Translation
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he Frankfurt Book Fair embodies the most important international meeting place for
anyone who operates in the publishing industry. The numbers provided by its
organisers show the relevance of such event: more than 7,300 exhibitors for 100
countries, 299,000 visitors and more than 10,000 journalists. The Frankfurt Book
Fair is an exceptional occasion for Italian publishers to be present with all of their
best strengths in order to guarantee the interest that our country has always been
dedicating to books, and to show our willingness to develop such an ancient and
modern instrument for people and culture to communicate and dialogue.
In particular, the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities has committed itself in promoting
and enhancing books and the Italian publishing sector. A concrete evidence of such a commitment
stands in the development of the Italian pavilion Punto Italia. It was conceived and structured by
the Italian Association of Publishers in collaboration with the National Institute for Foreign Trade
and it will be much more spacious this year than it has ever been (about 300 square metres) in order
to receive a greater number of publishers. Our significant presence intends to allow specialists to
enlarge their economic as well as cultural sphere, helping them building bridges toward the future
and giving them access to useful information about the World Book Market. The Frankfurt Book
Fair is also an opportunity to examine the state of the art of the publishing industry in the world
and, as regards to Italy, to analyse the production growth index and sales proceeds supplied by the
Italian Association of Publishers and by the National Institute of Statistics.
The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, which uses to participate in the event through
the Punto Italia, will enjoy this year a dedicated institutional area. The area will propose a selection
of volumes edited by the General Direction for Libraries, Cultural Institutes and Authors’ Rights and
by the Centre for Books and Reading, as well as a series of valuable publications from the General
Direction for Landscape, Fine Arts, Contemporary Architecture and Art. The volumes exhibited –
chosen amongst the extremely numerous works that the Ministry publishes each year – are meant
to represent the technical-scientific research carried out by central and territorial Offices for Cultural
Heritage. They may be considered as a valuable instrument to diffuse and share Italian cultural
heritage, both on the national territory and abroad. The dedicated area will also provide visitors with
information about the many projects recently financed by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and
Activities aimed at achieving better communication and accessibility to information for partially
sighted people through special circuits.
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General Director for Libraries,
Cultural Institutes and Authors’ Rights
General Director for Landscape, Fine Arts,
Contemporary Architecture and Art
Mr. Maurizio Fallace
Mr. Roberto Cecchi
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List of publications
in alphabetical order by title
Abiti: racconti di abiti vissuti della tradizione
valdostana / a cura di Stefania Massari e Tiziana
Fragna. - Scarmagno: Priuli & Verlucca, 2008. - 391 p.
: ill. ; 30x25 cm
ISBN 9788880684060 (€ 38,50)
Val d’Aosta popular traditions. The works have
been collected by kind of artefact and
reproduced in colour, following the essays on
Val d’Aosta civilization.
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The publication
gathers together the
entire corpus of
traditional clothes and
jewels which were
sent to Rome for the
Esposizione
Internazionale of 1911,
instituted to celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary
of the Unity of Italy. As
other regions, the Valle d’Aosta took part in
the Exhibition of Italian Ethnography held in
Piazza d’Armi, today the neighborhood of Prati
as part of the international exhibition, and in
addition to the costumes and pieces of
goldsmiths art, sent a large number of hand
crafted objects which were used to decorate
the various regional buildings with their
characteristic architecture, whose designs
are reproduced in the catalogue, including the
Palazzo delle Maschere e dei Costumi and the
building said to be Palazzo delle Scuole
(Palace of the Schools). The book collects the
documents and plans related to the designing
of the Esposizione projects, and essays by
Tiziana Fragno on clothes and costumes of the
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Acta photographica : rivista di fotografia, cultura e
territorio. - A. 1, n. 1 (mag. 2004)-. - Bologna :
Bononia university press ; Roma : Istituto centrale per il
catalogo e la documentazione, 2004!-. - v. : ill. ; 28x21
cm
Quadrimestrale. - Sospeso dal 2006 al 2007. - ISSN
17249821 (€ 28.00)
The photography,
culture and territory
review starts again
its activity with an
ambitious project of
exploring the
historical value of
photographic images
as heritage and
memory elements
and enhancing public
and private institutions' archives of images. It
seeks to carry out a methodological
comparison on themes like preservation,
restoration, training, cataloguing,
digitalization and dissemination of the world
photographic heritage by creating a virtual
network linking national and international
public and private institutions. The present
issue presents the Acts of the Meeting
promoted by the Department of Visual Arts of
Bologna: "The Project for a Photo Library of
the Department of Visual Arts. Preservation Cataloguing - History of Art".
Luigi Vanvitelli (Naples, 1770 – Caserta, 1773)
was an exceptional architect, painter and
actor on the artistic scene. He worked at the
Bourbon’s court from 1750 to 1773 for whom
he conceived the Palace of Caserta, his most
famous achievement.
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Alla corte di Vanvitelli: i Borbone e le arti alla Reggia
di Caserta / a cura di Nicola Spinosa. - [Milano] :
Electa, 2009. - 295 p. : ill. ; 28x24 cm
In testa al frontespizio: MiBAC, Ministero per i beni e le
attività culturali ... [et al.]
Mostra tenuta a Caserta nel 2009. - ISBN
9788851005788 (€ 35,00)
The exhibit, which
proposes works of
art temporarily
borrowed as well as
permanent furniture
of the Royal Palace
of Caserta, goes
through the vivid and
innovative cultural
climate that Luigi
Vanvitelli created
around him. It also recollects some other
creations of artists who worked at the court. It
shows paintings inspired by the architect’s
bright visions or paintings that represent
various religious and pagan subjects created
for churches and houses of the Neapolitan
nobility, allegoric triumphs of the ruling
dynasty, official portraits of the Royal House
and Neapolitan aristocracy, celebrative
images of the Court, sublime visions of the
erupting Vesuvius, sculptures and furniture. It
aims to present in an innovative way
Vanvitelli’s activity as well as the work of his
pupils and the artists whom he surrounded
himself. The exhibit provides the visitor with
new clues, further analysis and interesting
discoveries.
Amico Aspertini, 1474-1552: artista bizzarro nell’eta
di Durer e Raffaello / a cura di Andrea Emiliani,
Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian. - Milano : Silvana
Editoriale, [2008]. - 367 p. : ill. ; 28x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Bologna nel 2008-2009.
- ISBN 9788836611515 (€ 35,00)
The exhibit is the
first monographic
review dedicated to
Amico Aspertini. By
re-discovering the
essential role he
played in his original
context, it clearly
aims to give back
the right value to a
great artist who has
been largely unknown to the public. More
than 120 works have been gathered from
various European and American museums to
give a full vision of the work of such an
eccentric and restless interpreter. The
exhibit also tries to illustrate the works of
some other artists with whom he had
contacts. Selected engravings, precious
illuminated codices, ceramics and
archaeological pieces are also collected to
rebuild one of Italy’s major artistic period, in
particular in some towns, like Bologna, that
were true leading centres for culture and arts
during the first half of the 16th Century.
Amico Aspertini (Bologna, 1474 – Bologna,
1552) was one of Bologna’s most eclectic
painter of the first half of the 16th Century. He
attended Giovanni II Bentivoglio’s court and
worked with Francesco Francia and Lorenzo
Costa. Then, under Papal government, he
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succeeded in pursuing his activity and went
on travelling through Italy. He met Raffaello,
Dürer, Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi, Perugino
and other famous artists.
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Andrea Brustolon: 1662-1732, il Michelangelo del
legno / a cura di Anna Maria Spiazzi, Massimo De
Grassi, Giovanna Galasso. - Milano : Skira, 2009. 383 p. : ill. ; 28x25 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Belluno nel 2009. ISBN 9788857201870 (€ 45.00)
In testa al front.: Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali, Soprintendenza per il patrimonio storico
artistico ed etnoantropologico di Brescia, Cremona e
Mantova. - Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Mantova, 16
settembre 2006-14 gennaio 2007. - ISBN 8837046057
(€ 35,00)
The anthological
exhibit celebrates
the talents of Andrea
Brustolon, reviewing
his life and artistic
career.
Approximately 100
works of outstanding
quality are
presented, which
display his peerless
decorative virtuosity, which range from the
ecclesiastic furnishings to furniture and are
compared to those painters and sculptors of
his age who worked at the same time as the
great painter and carver. This anthology of
works afford the public the chance to follow
the creative progress of Brustolon and admire
his matchless ability to transform wood into
lifelike realism together with picturesque
expression.
Andrea Brustolon (Belluno, 1662 - 1732) was
one of the most original sculptors and wood
carvers of the Venetian Baroque age. He was
defined by Honoré de Balzac as the
Michelangelo of wood for his technical
perfection and expressive intensity.
On the occasion of
the Fifth Centennial
of the of the death of
Andrea Mantegna, an
exhibition
demonstrates the
relations between
the artist and the
Gonzaga family,
concentrating on his
masterpiece: the
Camera Picta, painted between 1465 and
1474. Through three sections, the exhibition
presents the various portraits linked to
members of the court portrayed in the
chamber and the other important personalities
in the history and culture of the age; the
entire corpus of documents signed by
Mantegna and finally the written culture in the
court by means of letters and manuscripts
regarding culture which were desired by the
rulers Ludovic II and Barbara of Brandenburg.
The exhibition catalogue is enhanced by the
articles on historical studies, as well as
preservation and restauration activities
carried outy in the Castello di San Giorgio and
in particular, the new monitoring equipment
which has been set up in the Camera Picta.
Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, 1431 Mantova, 1506), outstanding artist of the
Italian Fifteenth Century, a painter and
architect who was defined by Adolfo Venturi
“the founder of humanistic painting in
northern Italy”.
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Andrea Mantegna e i Gonzaga: Rinascimento nel
castello di San Giorgio / a cura di Filippo Trevisani. Milano : Electa, [2006]. - 307 p. : ill. ; 28x24 cm
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L’arca marmorea del Beato Bertrando nel battistero
della cattedrale di Udine : la nuova sistemazione, il
restauro e le indagini scientifiche / a cura di Paolo
Casadio ; scritti di Fabrizio Antonelli ... [et al.]. - Udine
: Forum, 2008. - 88 p. : ill. ; 30x21 cm. - (Relazioni
della Soprintendenza per i beni architettonici, per il
paesaggio e per il patrimonio storico, artistico ed
etnoantropologico del Friuli Venezia Giulia ; 14)
In testa al front.: Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali, Direzione regionale per i beni culturali e
paesaggistici del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Soprintendenza
per i beni architettonici per il paesaggio e per il
patrimonio storico artistico ed etnoantropologico del
Friuli Venezia Giulia. - ISBN 9788884204738 (€
15,00)
The publication
documents the
results which
emerged from the
restoration carried
out on the marble
sarcophagus of the
Bless Bertrand of
Saint-Geniès located
in the cathedral of
Udine. Furthermore
the publication illustrates the role and
meaning conferred to a monument of great
importance for the artistic history of Friuli’s
Fourteenth Century within the octagon shaped
Gothic baptistery and in the Cathedral
Museum dedicated to the great French
patriarch. The various events marked the
sarcophagus’ history from its first placement
in the cathedral just until its recent relocation
and also carry the critical reflections which
emerged from the scientific studies on the
restoration.
i beni e le attività culturali. - ISBN 9788873202080 (€
50,00)
This work presents
the most interesting
outputs of a vast
survey on the
ecclesiastical
patrimony of the
Diocese of Saluzzo
and bears witness to
the first action of
conservation carried out on local heritage. It
gathers more than 16,000 analytical charts
and pictures that have been drawn up during
an impressive cataloguing that recorded, from
1997 to December 2005, all 91 diocesan
parishes and places of worship built in the
municipality of Saluzzo (Province of Cuneo). It
gives evidence of the important historical,
artistic and religious heritage created
between the Romanesque era and the 20th
Century: frescos, oil on canvas paintings,
wooden liturgical treasures, precious clothes,
jewellery and votive pictures. It aims to
nourish the debate on the preservation,
conservation and enhancement of past
heritage and to give a valuable account of
restoration interventions made in the last 30
years.
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Arte nel territorio della diocesi di Saluzzo / a cura di
Romano Allemano, Sonia Damiano, Giovanna Galante
Garrone ; fotografie di Giorgio Olivero. - Savigliano :
L’Artistica, stampa 2008. - XXXVIII, 559 p. : ill. col. ;
22x24 cm
Nel verso dell’occhietto: C.E.I. Conferenza Episcopale
Italiana, Diocesi di Saluzzo, Fondazione Cassa di
Risparmio di Saluzzo, Regione Piemonte, Ministero per
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Artegna : opere d’arte nei secoli / a cura di Elisabetta
Francescutti e Francesca Frucco. - Udine : FORUM,
2009. - 143 p. : ill. ; 25x20 cm
Catalogo della mostra Artegna, Palazzo municipale, 18
aprile - 21 giugno 2009. - ISBN 9788884205414 (€
25,00)
Arti e tradizioni : il Museo nazionale dell’EUR / Stefania
Massari. - Roma : De Luca, stampa 2004. - 510 p. : ill.
; 25x17 cm
Nell’occhietto: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali,
Museo nazionale delle arti e tradizioni popolari. - ISBN
8880165135 (€ 41,00)
The publication
presents the results
of the study of the
precious cultural
heritage of the
municipality of
Artegna, in the
province of Udine,
through the analysis
of the history and
events preserved in
the churches and buildings which are the most
representative of the territory following the
earthquakes of 1976. Thanks to an important
selection of works of art, the variety and
importance of the works of art which have
been preserved are documented with the
intention of re-evaluating them and
recognizing the signs of the age to which they
belong, the tastes of the patrons of art, as
well as religious and decorative connotations.
The works range from frescos to altar pieces,
from wood and stone sculptures, to
goldsmiths’ art and are supported by detailed
files on the provenance, stylistic features and
critical notes.
The publication
reviews the events
which lead to the
creation of the
Museo Nazionale
delle Arti e
Tradizioni Popolari,
unique at a national
level, whose
responsibilities
include the socalled “tangible and intangible heritage” as
Unesco defined them. Through archive
documents and congressional acts, a history
filled with strategies and results, which
permit us to know and grasp the
development of the institution, which was
set up in 1911 with the Mostra Etnografica
on the occasion of the Esposizione
Internazionale di Roma which was vital for
the cultural and identity development of the
Italian nation. Thanks as a matter of fact, to
a wide-spreading heritage of folk usages,
costumes, rites, festivals, traditions,
folklore, and tastes, the Museum constitutes
an important cultural resource, which is
today protected and whose value is given
their true worth.
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Bollettino d’arte / Ministero della pubblica istruzione,
Direzione generale delle antichità e belle arti. - Roma
: La libreria dello Stato, 1948-. - v. : ill. ; 29x23 cm
Trimestrale; bimestrale (1983-1997). - Denominazione
di resp. (1975-): Ministero per i beni culturali e
ambientali [poi] Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali. - L’editore varia. - Non pubblicato dal 1969 al
1971. - Indice storico 1907-1976, Sommari e indici
1979-2002. - ISSN 03944573 (€ 36,00 cad.)
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The Bollettino
d’Arte, which began
to be published in
1907, is the official
review of the
Ministero per i Beni
e le Culturali. It
gathers together
specialist materials
and articles for those
working in the fields
of ancient and modern art history, archeology,
architecture, restoration and the protection of
the Italian historical and artistic heritage. The
authors of the articles are scholars and
professionals who work within the Ministry
who come form the sectors of the University
and scientific research.
The review is published quarterly, and is
supplements with special editions dedicated
to particular subjects. Starting from next year
there will be a new series (VII) of the
Bollettino d’Arte, with new editorial and new
diffusion policies.
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Bonacolsi, l’antico: uno scultore nella Mantova di
Andrea Mantegna e di Isabella d’Este : [Mantova,
Palazzo Ducale, Appartamento di Isabella d’Este in
Corte Vecchia, 13 settembre 2008-6 gennaio 2009! / a
cura di Filippo Trevisani e Davide Gasparotto. - Milano
: Electa, [2008]. - 340 p. : ill. ; 28x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra. - ISBN 9788837061425 (€
45,00)
This publication is a
tribute to Pier
Jacopo Bonacolsi,
called “the
Ancient”. It includes
contributions by
researchers and
international
specialists that go
through his life and
his works. After
many centuries of silence, critics and the
larger public are offered the occasion to
rediscover this artist who was a goldsmith,
sculptor, medallist, antiquarian at the
Gonzaga’s courts. For the first time a
monographic exhibit is entirely dedicated to
him, with about a hundred works coming from
the most prestigious national and
international institutions (among them, the
Kunsthistoriches Museum of Vienna) that form
an outstanding event, though temporary, as
they re-compose the original collection of the
Ducal Palace of Mantova.
Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi also known as
“The Ancient” (1460?-1528), was one of
Mantova most famous and renowned artists.
He was multi-talented man and he played an
essential role at Francesco II Gonzaga and
Isabella d’Este’s courts.
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Canaletto: Venezia e i suoi splendori / a cura di
Giuseppe Pavanello e Alberto Craievich. - Venezia :
Marsilio, 2008. - 342 p. : ill. ; 29x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Treviso nel 2008-2009.
- Nell’occhietto: Fondazione Cassamarca; Artematica
(€ 40,00)
The exhibition
celebrates Venice
through the genius
of Canaletto
presenting a broad
panorama on one of
the most important
artistic phenomena
of the European 18th
Century, Vedutismo
(landscape or
Veduta painting. Of this, Canaletto is
undoubtedly the absolute main player as
concerns attention to light, the capacity to
enlarge spaces, to the creative inspiration;
the exhibition however offers the possibility
to also appreciate other important
interpreters such as Luca Carlevarijs,
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Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi, for
a total of approximately one hundred works,
coming from the greatest museums of the
world, public and private institutions, whose
succession not only illustrates the various
stylistic peculiarities but allows us to have a
coherent “historical” overview of the
‘veduta’ genre.
Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto
(Venice, 1697 - 1768) was one of the most
important painters and engravers of the
Italian 18th Century, excellent interpreter of
Vedutismo.
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Il cannocchiale e il pennello: nuova scienza e nuova
arte nell’età di Galileo / [ideazione e cura della mostra:
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Alessandro Tosi]. - Firenze
[etc.] : Giunti, 2009. - 414 p. : ill. ; 26x25 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Pisa nel 2009. - ISBN
9788809742383 (€ 35,00)
On the occasion of
the fourth centennial
of the first
astronomical
observations, the
publication renders
homage to Galileo
Galilei reviewing 150
works, among
paintings,
sculptures,
drawings, engravings, books and objects, his
entire human and intellectual life. The
intention is that of highlight the rich network
of relationships with which artistic culture as
well as philosophic, literary, and scientific
cultures responded to the “affirmation of the
Galilean revolution”. Objects , instruments,
books, manuscripts, as well as unpublished
handwritten materials, as well as works by
some of the great masters of the Seventeenth
Century, from Cigoli to Ribera, from
Arcimboldo to Guercino, from Caravaggio to
Artemisia Gentileschi arriving finally to the
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most famous portrait which immortalized the
great scientist, by Justus Suttermans.
Galileo Galilei (Pisa, 1564 – Arcetri, 1642) was
one of the most important scientists of the
Seventeenth Century; physicist, philosopher,
astronomer and mathematician, he is
considered the father of modern science.
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Canova: l’ideale classico tra scultura e pittura :
[Musei San Domenico, Forlì, 25 gennaio-21 giugno
2009] / catalogo e mostra a cura di Sergej Androsov,
Fernando Mazzocca, Antonio Paolucci con Stefano
Grandesso, Francesco Leone. - Cinisello Balsamo :
Silvana Editoriale, [2009]. - 383 p. : ill. ; 28x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra, promossa e realizzata da
Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì. - ISBN
9788836612352 (€ 35,00)
The exhibit proposes
some 160 sculptures
and paintings by
Antonio Canova and
some highly
interesting points of
comparison with
Raffaello, Tiziano
and other
contemporary
artists. It chooses in
Forlì – where the artist created three major
works – the ideal starting point in order to
prove the close link between the town and the
so-called “modern Fidia” and his artistic
production, which was totally inspired by the
classical ideal. The exhibit compares marbles,
plasters, bas-reliefs, sketches, paintings and
drawings by Canova to Ancient models that
inspired him and to some of his contemporary
artists.
Antonio Canova (Possagno, 1757 – Venice,
1822) was one of the major European sculptors
between the 18th and the 19th centuries. He
interpreted aesthetics according to Johann
Joachim Winckelmann and Anton Raphael
Mengs’ theories.
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Cantiere Uffizi / a cura di Roberto Cecchi e Antonio
Paolucci. - Roma : Gangemi, [2007]. - 398 p. : ill. ;
24x23 cm
ISBN 9788849212433 (€ 40,00)
All of the aspects of
the New Uffizi
project (work begun
in June 2006):
restoration,
enlargement,
updating the
functions and plant
engineering of the
complex. In
particular, the
enlargement will allow the doubling of the
exposition surface; the creation of a new
itinerary in the archeological areas discovered
beneath the Museum; the building of the exit
on Piazza del Grano. The volume furthermore
offers a vast panorama of the transformation
interventions which have been conducted on
the Galleria over the last century of its life
(1900-2000). In an appendix, there is a section
dedicated to the Corridoio Vasariano building
project, desired by Cosimo I de’ Medici (15191574) and built by the great architect Giorgio
Vasari (1511-1574).
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Correggio / a cura di Lucia Fornari Scianchi. - Milano :
Skira, [2008]. - 518 p. : ill. ; 28x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Parma nel 2008-2009. ISBN 9788857200057 (€ 65,00)
The most complete
and structured
monographic exhibit
on Antonio Allegri,
better known as
Correggio, is a
tribute to the artist
who brought great
prestige to Parma. It
presents more than a hundred works,
paintings and drawings from his youth to his
oldest period, that come from major Italian
and foreign museums. The exhibit highlights
the strong personality of this 16th Century
brilliant interpreter who influenced future
artistic trends until the Baroque. To explore
also the context in which he lived and worked,
it proposes a selection of works by his
contemporaries and of some reference places
in the town and province of Parma.
Antonio Allegri called Correggio (Correggio,
1489 - 1534) was one of the major exponents
of the Renaissance. His work is mainly
characterised by his ability in catching the
light, creating new light and shade effects
and achieving impressive spatial deepness.
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Costumi: gli abiti sardi dell’Esposizione internazionale
di Roma del 1911 / a cura di Stefania Massari e Paolo
Piquereddu. - Nuoro : Ilisso, [2005]. - 302 p. : ill. ;
30x25 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Roma nel 2005. - In
testa al front.: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
... [et al.]. - ISBN 8889188332 (€ 48,00)
The seventy-three
costumes presented
in the exhibition set
in the Museo
nazionale delle arti e
tradizioni popolari di
Roma, are those sent
to Rome on the
occasion of the
Esposizione
internazionale of
1911: as a matter of fact, in a context in
which folk art was collected focused on the
authenticity of the Italian cultural traditions,
the Esposizione gave a great deal of
importance to the traditional clothing. The
catalogue opens with an essay on the
comparison between our day and age and that
of the exhibition at the beginning of the
century. It is then followed by an analysis of
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the transformation of Sardinian costumes
between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
centuries. All of the clothes, reproduced in
colour, are supported by explanatory notes on
the typology of the garments and its
characteristic materials, to these we should
add the collection of goldsmiths’ art and the
transcription of documents kept in the
historical archives of the MAT. The publication
of Sardinian costumes and its photographic
documentation, include a broad and detailed
photographic series, which shows the clothes
in all of their decorative details, and the
related catalogue notes.
Nicholas Serota to Cy Twombly.
Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928) is
considered to be one of the major living artists
pertaining to the generation of American
artists who made their debuts after Abstract
Expressionism, and opened the way to new
forms of painting. He settled in Italy in 1957
where he found a sort of temporal and spatial
threshold and where poetry, classical
mythology, Mediterranean light and
landscapes became a continuous source of
inspiration.
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De Chirico e il museo / a cura di Mario Ursino. Milano : Electa, [2008]. - 239 p. : ill. ; 28x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Roma nel 2008-2009. ISBN 9788837065461 (€ 35,00)
Cy Twombly / a cura di Nicholas Serota ; saggi di
Nicholas Cullinan, Tacita Dean, Richard Shiff. - Milano
: Electa, [2009]. - 271 p. : ill. ; 29x25 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta alla Galleria nazionale
d’arte moderna di Roma nel 2009. - ISBN
9788837068080 (€ 45,00)
The exhibit is the
first Italian
retrospective
dedicated to Cy
Twomby and presents
more than sixty of
his works. It goes
through more than
seventy years of his
long career with
paintings, drawings
and sculptures that tell some key moments of
that period, and accompanies the public
backwards until the Fifties. It aims to make
Twombly’s evasive and sometimes
unfathomable art more intelligible by
introducing the visitors into his atelier: like a
journey into the heart of the artist’s creativity
to understand his modus operandi and sensegiving process, going through the various
periods and steps of his creation. This book is
enriched with essays by Richard Shiff, Tacita
Dean, Nicholas Cullinan and an interview by
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On the thirty
anniversary of the
master’s death, the
exhibit aims to cast
light on the so-called
“by De Chirico” or, in
other words, the kind
of painting that is
neither a copy nor a
study but rather a
reflection of the
inspired artist on the inspiring artist.
Therefore, it gives relevance to the
continuous and complex relationship between
De Chirico and the art from the past. A relation
that may be defined as a sort of imaginary
museum born from his willingness to possess
any secret and any material virtue of
“painting” in order to transmit it to his epoch
where all meanings of it have been lost. It
gathers a hundred works (paintings and
drawings and one sculpture) that are
presented in six thematic sections: Mythology
and Archaeology; After the great masters;
Great painting; From Rubens onwards;
Neometaphysics; Works on paper. The
catalogue includes many essays,
contributions, charts and Dacia Maraini’s
interesting interview to the master.
Giorgio De Chirico (Volos, 1888 – Rome, 1978)
was a famous Italian painter and one of the
major exponents of the artistic trend of
Metaphysical painting.
I Della Robbia: il dialogo tra le arti nel Rinascimento /
a cura di Giancarlo Gentilini ; con la collaborazione di
Liletta Fornasari. - Milano : Skira, [2009]. - 413 p. : ill.
; 28x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Arezzo nel 2009. - ISBN
9788857200309 (€ 44,00)
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The exhibit, which is
dedicated to the
active role played by
the Della Robbia
family, illustrates
the development and
large diffusion of
glazed earthenware
in Tuscany during the
Renaissance. It
presents about 140
works some of which of an outstanding value
and exhibited for the first time. They tell
about the prolific links between the art of
sculpting glazed earthenware and the “three
sister arts” and “decorative arts”. The public
will understand the new interpretation Luca
Della Robbia gave to this technique and will
discover his great creativity together with
other works by his contemporaries that will
outline the cultural context where he grew up.
This publication casts light on Della Robbia’s
pottery impasto and enamel, on the basis of
the outputs of chemical and physical analysis
that were carried out at the Louvre Museum.
Deliberazioni di partiti della Fabbrica de’ 13
magistrati / a cura di Claudia Conforti, Francesca
Funis. - Roma : Gangemi, stampa 2007. - 270 p. ;
24x23 cm
Trascrizione del ms. conservato presso l’Archivio di
Stato di Firenze, contenente scritti e documenti relativi
alla costruzione degli Uffizi. - Nella pagina contro il
front.: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali,
Direzione generale per i
beni architettonici e
paesaggistici. - ISBN
9788849211788 (€
28,00)
The volume
publishes writings
and documents
concerning the
construction of the
largest building project of the Florentine
Sixteenth Century, the Fabbrica dei XIII
Magistrati, later named the Uffizi, and covers
the period from 1560, year of the beginning of
work up to 1570. The names of the supervisors
of the Fabbrica project are listed: from the
architect Giorgio Vasari, to the various
master-builders, from the Chancellors to the
five superintendents. What also appears in it
are: the methods of assigning jobs; the
mechanism of job tenders; the organization of
the work site; the specifications of the raw
materials, including the places of extraction
or procurement; the methods of hiring
unskilled workers , often used in virtue of the
ancient obligation of work squads.
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D’improvviso i musei di Firenze / a cura di Marilena
Tamassia ; fotografie del Gabinetto fotografico e di
Lucia Baldini. - Livorno : Sillabe, 2008. - 57 p. : ill. ;
21x22 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Firenze nel 2008-2009.
- In testa al front.: Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali, Soprintendenza speciale per il patrimonio
storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico e per il polo
museale della città di Firenze, Gabinetto fotografico
della Soprintendenza speciale per il polo museale
fiorentino. - ISBN 9788883474811 (€ 12,00)
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This publication
offers a rich
collection of images
of past and present
public museums in
Florence. It collects
a vast literature that
compares some
photographs
selected by Marilena
Tamassia from the
historical funds of the archives of the Polo
Museale of Florence to some other pictures
taken by the photographer Lucia Baldini. It
results in an interesting dialogue that allows
pointing out the different uses and structural
and organisational transformations that took
place in the museums of Florence from 1850
to now.
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Donatello : il David restaurato / a cura di Beatrice
Paolozzi Strozzi. - Firenze : Giunti, 2008. - 214 p. : ill. ;
28x22 cm
Sul retro del front.: Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali, Soprintendenza speciale per il patrimonio
storico artistico ed etnoantropologico e per il polo
museale della città di Firenze. - Mostra tenuta a
Firenze, Museo nazionale del Bargello, 29 novembre
2008 - 23 novembre 2009. - ISBN 9788809063327 (€
35,00)
This publication
gives evidence of the
intensive restoration
intervention carried
out on the
Donatello’s David
from June 2007 to
November 2008.
Before its
restoration, the
famous statue was
only subject to ordinary maintenance due to
its delicate shaping and its original gilding
(made with the extremely fragile technique
called “mission”). New laser techniques
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allowed giving back the statue its ancient
splendour by restoring gold and taking away
the compactness of the dark patina that
covered it. The essays inside this volume,
which are illustrated with graphs, comment
the delicate restoration interventions that
were carried out in a special open-air
laboratory where specialists, researchers and
technicians have been working under the eye
of the public.
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi called
Donatello (Firenze, 1386-1466) was a famous
Italian sculptor, goldsmith and designer. He is
considered to be one of the fathers of the
Florentine Renaissance.
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La donna, il paesaggio e l’impressione: dipinti dei
Musei Civici di Pavia tra Ottocento e Novecento / a
cura di Giovanna Petrenga, Susanna Zatti. - Milano :
Skira, [2008]. - 143 p. : ill. ; 28x24 cm
In testa al front.: Dal paesaggio all’impressione,
impressionisti e postimpressionisti. - Catalogo della
mostra tenutasi a Caserta nel 2008-2009. - ISBN
9788857201139 (€ 30,00)
The exhibit is
organised in the
beautiful rooms of
the Royal Palace of
Caserta. It offers an
important and vast
review of the
developments that
figurative arts in
Lombardy have
undergone from the
beginning of the 19th Century until the 1920s.
It shows some eighty works of art coming from
the striking Quadreria dell’Ottocento, the
refined Morone Collection and the storehouse
of Castello Visconteo of Pavia. It recurs to
some key subjects, like women and
landscapes, to make us discover important
traces of the artistic culture that developed in
that town of the Po valley. A town that also
hosted a famous Art Academy, where many
enlightened benefactors met talented artists
like the Trecourt brothers, Federico Faruffini,
Pasquale Massacra, Tranquillo Cremona or
Giorgio Kienerk.
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Emozioni in terracotta: Guido Mazzoni, Antonio
Begarelli : sculture del Rinascimento emiliano / a cura
di Giorgio Bonsanti e Francesca Piccinini. - Modena :
Panini, 2009. - 286 p. : ill. ; 28x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Modena nel 2009. ISBN 9788857000749 (€ 40,00)
The exhibition is
dedicated to the
work and activities
of the Modena artists
Guido Mazzoni and
Antonio Begarelli,
two exceptional
personalities of
Renaissance art
history. The exhibit’s
intention is to
enhance the value of their artistic stature and
to rekindle their appreciation by the public at
large. The exposition contains approximately
sixty works of art, for the most part
sculptures, but also painstakingly selected
paintings and drawings, concerning the period
spanning from 1470 to 1560. The context in
which they were working is studied,
highlighting the importance of their
production within the Po Valley sculpture
production of the period and the vaster artistic
panorama, marked by such important artists
as Ercole de’ Roberti, Giovanni Bellini, Nicolò
dell’Arca, Alfonso Lombardi, Correggio and
Raphael.
Guido Mazzoni (Modena, 1450 - 1516) and
Antonio Begarelli (Modena, 1499 ca. - 1565)
are considered masters of Emelia renaissance
terracotta. They were active with one working
some fifty years after the other, the former
creating features which are more realistic and
detailed, and the second in a more classical
and idealized style.
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Enrico Del Debbio / Maria Luisa Neri ; con i contributi
di Paola Raffaella David ... [et al.]. - Milano : Idea
Books, [2006]. - 439 p. : ill. ; 30x24 cm
Pubbl. in occasione della mostra tenuta a Roma nel
2006-2007. - ISBN 8888033203 (€ 49,00)
The exhibit is an
anthology of the
work of the architect
Enrico del Debbio
and provides a
studied selection of
the entire archive
donated by his
daughter Gigliola to
the former Direzione
generale per l’arte e
l’architettura contemporanea in 2002,
covering a rich and important period running
from 1910 to 1973. Drawing, tempera painting,
sketches, paintings, documents and
photographs, now made available for
scholarship and research, represent a chance
to know and understand the contribution Del
Debbio brought to Italian architecture as a
result of his intense design work. The
overview covers his artistic career and
highlights his sense of measure in as much as
it is a hallmark of modernism, in a continuous
return to the inspiration of the past to return
to the present, tradition and renewal.
Enrico del Debbio (Carrara, 1891 – Roma,
1973) represents a key figure in Twentieth
Century Italian architecture, animated by a
great passion, autonomy and coherence with
which all of his design work was imbued.
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Erbe e speziali: i laboratori della salute / a cura di
Margherita Breccia Fratadocchi, Simonetta Butto. Sansepolcro : Aboca Museum, 2007. - 402 p. : ill. ; 29
cm
In testa al front.: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Roma. Segue: Appendici. - Catalogo della mostra tenuta a
Roma nel 2007 (€ 78,00)
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This volume includes
many essays and
contributions by
specialists that go
through a centurylong history of
medical plants, with
a special attention to
case studies that
illustrate their
therapeutic value. It
is an extraordinary journey inside the book
heritage of the Central National Library in
Rome that takes us to the early times of
Modern medicine. The publication was first
conceived by the famous School of Medicine
of Salerno and illustrates the great
contribution made by institutions, either laic
or religious: the latter have kept in line with a
uninterrupted medical tradition that goes back
to Middle Ages and that has been enriched in
the 16th century with new therapeutic
resources thanks to new species discovered
and brought in by missionaries, like china root
and passionflower. Many themes of great
historic and cultural value are dealt with:
development of pharmacopoeia, medieval
surveys on vegetal medicine, monastic and
laic pharmaceutical schools, autochthonous
and exotic plants, botanical gardens, species
gardens, charlatans. The underlying issue of
this volume is the ultimate search for the
secret power of plants, a precious value that
humankind should be proud of and that
mustn’t be wasted nor lost.
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Feste barocche: cerimonie e spettacoli alla corte dei
Savoia tra Cinque e Settecento / a cura di Clelia
Arnaldi di Balme, Franca Varallo. - Cinisello Balsamo :
Silvana, 2009. - 190 p. : ill. ; 28x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Torino nel 2009 (€
35,00)
The exhibition starts
from a in-depth study
of the collections of
Palazzo Madama, in
particular of
drawings and textile
collections and
privileges those
works which are able
to tell us about
baroque festivals
with the vivid hues of the extraordinary
spectacle that they represented, from the
middle of the 16th Century to the beginning of
the 18th. Around this core, the exhibition has
built a display of the objects coming form
museums, libraries as well as Italian and
foreign archives, which are able to summon
the feting and celebrations linked to the most
important moments of the life of princes, from
the unfolding of the seasons, and of the civil
and religious calendar. The publication is
supported by essays which highlight the multidisciplinary aspects of such events and their
evolution and testimony in as much as they
occasions of fun but also a political metaphor
and instrument of propaganda.
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Figline, il Cigoli e i suoi amici : colorire naturale e
vero / a cura di Novella Barbolani di Montauto, Miles
Chappell. - Firenze : Polistampa, [2008]. - 175 p. : ill. ;
24x18 cm. - (La città degli Uffizi ; 1)
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Figline nel 2008-2009. ISBN 9788859604815 (€ 18,00)
This publication aims
to illustrate the
artistic production of
Lodovico Cardi also
known as “Il Cigoli”
according to three
essential periods of
his life: The
customers from
Figline and the
friendship with
Gregorio Pagani with whom he shared the
passion for “drawing from nature” and
searched a new way to “obtain natural and
true colours”; The step from apprentice to
master; The achievement of the frescos in the
Chiostro Grande of Santa Maria Novella. The
exhibit presents more than fifty works
including self-portraits, drawings, sketches
and works of art by his contemporaries and
proposes an interesting comparison to
underline stylistic resemblances and
differences.
Lodovico Cardi called “Il Cigoli” (Cigoli, Pisa
1559 - Rome, 1613) was a famous Italian
painter and architect. He was trained at the
Florentine school and worked during the
transition period from Mannerism to Baroque.
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Filippo et Filippino Lippi: la Renaissance a Prato. Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana, [2009]. - 237 p. : ill. ;
28x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Parigi nel 2009. - ISBN
9788836613366 (€ 34,00)
The Musée du
Luxembourg in Paris
hosts this exhibit on
two major Italian
artists of the
Renaissance: Filippo
Lippi and his son
Filippino. With its 51
selected works, the
exhibit casts light on
the artistic renewal
brought by the artists and their influence on
Florentine painters. Therefore the exhibit shows,
together with the masters’ works of art, some of
the most important works by their collaborators
like Fra Diamante, Domenico Zenobi, Ridolfo
Bagordi (the so-called Ghirlandaio) and Santi di
Tito. Moreover, in this occasion, some other ten
works of art have been restored like the
marvellous Virgin and Child with Saints Stephen
and John, better known as Pala dell’Udienza.
Filippo Lippi (Florence, 1406 - Spoleto, 1469)
was a Carmelite friar. From 1452 to 1466, he had
his atelier in Prato, where he also worked to the
fresco of the Gallery of the Cathedral.
Filippino Lippi (Prato, 1457 – Florence, 1504) is
the son of Filippo and the nun Lucrezia Buti, the
famous model whom he inspired himself in his
paintings. He grew up in Prato in his father’s
atelier where he showed great talent since the
very beginning. He then became apprentice in
Botticelli’s studio. His paintings were full of
mystic and religious tensions and had great
influence on contemporary artists. It also
opened the way to Italian Mannerism, an artistic
trend of the 16th Century.
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Firenze prima degli Uffizi : lo scavo di via de’
Castellani: contributi per un’archeologia urbana fra
tardo antico ed età moderna / a cura di Federico
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Cantini ... [et al.]. - Borgo San Lorenzo (FI) :
All’insegna del Giglio, [2007]. - 718 p. ; 24x23 cm
Nella pagina contro il front.: Ministero per i beni e le
attività culturali, Direzione generale per i beni
architettonici e paesaggistici; Fondazione Monte dei
Paschi di Siena, Progetto Archeologia dei paesaggi
medievali. - ISBN 9788878143265 (€ 65,00)
The volume collects
the results of the
analytical work
conducted on the
excavations of Via
de’ Castellani,
between August and
December of 2003.
The study of the
stratigraphic
deposits, and in
particular of the archaeological artefacts,
has permitted the writing of the history of
this area of the city, which remaining outside
of the city walls, at least up until the end of
the Eleventh Century. In particular, it is
precisely owing to the study of the Florentine
cultural material which has allowed to build
up for the first time corpus of materials
which circulated in an urban environment,
with a rich chrono-typological sequence of
the ceramic artefacts of the late Roman
period up until the modern era.
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Le giornate della traduzione letteraria : Centro
europeo per l’editoria, Università degli studi di Urbino
“Carlo Bo”, 2003-2007 / a cura di Stefano Arduini e
Ilide Carmignani. - [Roma] : Iacobelli, 2008. - 334 p. ;
24 cm. – (Quaderni di Libri e riviste d’Italia ; 59)
In calce al front.: Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali, Direzione generale per i beni librari, gli Istituti
culturali ed il diritto d’autore, Centro per il libro e la
lettura
This collects the
papers presented by
the professionals of
the publication
industry, writers,
scholars and
translators at the
Giornate di studio
which took place
between 2003 and
2007 at the
Università ‘Carlo Bo’ of Urbino, with the
patronage of the Italian Ministry of Cultural
Heritage and Activities.
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Italian libraries. - [Roma] : Ministero per i beni e le
attività culturali, Direzione generale per i beni librari, gli
istituti culturali ed il diritto d’autore : Centro per il libro
e la lettura : Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, [2009]. 149 p., [32] p. di tav. : ill. ; 20x20 cm. - (Quaderni di
Libri e riviste d’Italia ; 62)
Distribuito in occasione di IFLA 2009
On the occasion of
the 75th IFLA
Congresso, the
Directorate General
for libraries, cultural
institutions and
authors’ rights
edited the
publication of Italian
Libraries. The
volume, which took
advantage of the contribution of the some of
the leading experts of the field, presents a
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general overview of Italy’s libraries, outlining
their future prospects and offers some
suggestions for the development of libraries
within the framework of communications
systems.
patrimonio storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico /
MiBAC, Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali,
Direzione generale per il patrimonio storico, artistico ed
etnoantropologico ; 1)
ISBN 9788840441597 (€ 30,00)
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The publication
describes the most
important scientific
studies carried out
over the last twenty
years which were
required for the
restoration
interventions of the
famous fresco by
Leonardo Da Vinci.
Owing to its complexity, stemming from the
serious deterioration of the fresco, the
intervention required an interdisciplinary
approach aimed at respecting the setting, the
Refettorio di Santa Maria delle Grazie in
Milan, and the particular preservation needs
of the painting, on the basis of the
indispensable environment-artifact
relationship. A CD-ROM is attached with the
text which contains the illustrations and the
tables present in the volume.
Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola : aggiornamenti critici a
500 anni dalla nascita / a cura del Comitato Nazionale
per il Vignola. - Roma : Novegrafie , 2008. – 103 p. :
ill. ; 20x20 cm
(Celebrazioni per il cinquecentenario della nascita di
Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola) (€ 25,00)
The publication
focuses on Jacopo
Barozzi da Vignola
and has come out on
the occasion of the
fifth centennial of
his birth. Among the
various issues
examined: the
clients and the
“character” of the
architect, the analysis of the Farnese era and
the relationship between architecture and
decoration, the gardens of Tuscia, “palaces”
and the typology of “villas”. The publication
also includes essays by the leading scholars
of the artist, archive research and critical
updates aimed a deeper understanding of the
architect’s works including those constructed
in the region of Lazio.
Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, also known as
Vignola (Vignola, 1507 – Rome, 1573)
architect and treatise writer, occupies one of
the main positions in the panorama of the
Italian 16th Century.
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Leonardo: l’Ultima cena : indagini, ricerche, restauro
/ a cura di Giuseppe Basile e Maurizio Marabelli. Firenze : Nardini : Istituto centrale per il restauro,
[2007]. - 198 p., [16] c. di tav. : ill. ; 30x21 cm + 1 CDROM. - (Quaderni della direzione generale per il
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Libri e riviste d’Italia : rassegna bibliografica
mensile. - N. S., a. 10, n. 95 (gen. 1958)-a. 56, n.
655/658 (set./dic. 2004). - Roma : Istituto poligrafico
dello Stato, 1958-2009. - v. : ill. ; 24 cm
Quadrimestrale(1984-2004), bimestrale(2005-2008). Poi sottotit.: Rassegna di informazione culturale e
bibliografica; dal 2005: Bimestrale di cultura editoriale
e promozione della lettura
Almeno da a. 16, n. 168 (feb. 1964) ente resp.:
Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Servizio
informazioni e proprietà letteraria; da a. 27, n. 301
(1975) edito a cura del Ministero per i beni culturali e
ambientali, Ufficio centrale per i beni librari, le
istituzioni culturali e l’editoria (la forma dell’ente varia).
- Continua in formato digitale, consultabile all’indirizzo:
www.ilpianetalibro.it. - ISSN - 0024-2683
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The review of
cultural and
bibliographic
information which
was founded in 1950
was transformed in
2005 into a bimonthly publication
for the culture and
the promotion of
literature. Its
contents were renewed as were its graphics,
and it is also present on the Internet. It is an
instrument of information which looks at what
is happening in the world of books, and also
analyses issues and publishing trends.
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La lupa e la sfinge : Roma e l’Egitto dalla storia al mito
/ a cura di Eugenio Lo Sardo. - Milano : Electa, [2008].
- 213 p. : ill. ; 26x21 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Roma nel 2008. - ISBN
9788837062224 (€ 35,00)
The exhibition
illustrates the
intense and
century’s long
relationship which
intertwined Rome
with Egypt through a
careful selection of
works which, except
for a few ones, range
over a chronological
period that starts from the 1st Century BC until
the Age of Enlightenment, during which Egypt
went from being “history” to becoming myth.
What emerges is the incomparable importance
that Egyptian civilization had for ancient Rome
passing through the Middle Ages,
Renaissance, Seventeenth Century and the
Eighteenth Century until the present day, but
also the great deal of attention that Egypt
enjoys still today in Italy.
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La mano e il volto di Antonio Canova: nobile semplicità
serena grandezza / testi di Rita Bernini ... [et al.]. [Treviso] : Canova, [2008]. - 257 p. : ill. ; 30x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Possagno Museo
Gipsoteca Antonio Canova nel 2008-2009
In testa al front.: Fondazione Canova. - ISBN
9788884092083 (€ 35,00)
The exhibit
dedicated to Canova
recollects for the
first time some of his
262 portraits and
gives evidence of the
renown and prestige
he was
acknowledged as a
true “legend” both
for the creativity of
his sculptures and paintings and for his strong
personality. The exhibit opens with the most
studied self-portraits in which the artist
succeeded to express the many states of
mind, then it proposes about forty portraits by
Italian and foreign artists, many “engraved
portraits”, medallions, and even exhibits the
artist’s own clothes and personal
correspondence. On the occasion of the
transfer of the relic of the right hand, from the
Academy of Fine Arts of Venice to Possagno,
the exhibit explores once again the life of
Canova, including his private life, his
relationships with contemporary artists and
intellectuals and with his motherland: it
succeeds in giving a social picture of the
social and worldly life, trends and fashions.
Antonio Canova (Possagno, 1757 – Venice,
1822) was one of the major European sculptors
between the 18th and the 19th centuries. He
interpreted aesthetics according to Johann
Joachim Winckelmann and Anton Raphael
Mengs’ theories.
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La memoria della Prima Guerra Mondiale: il
patrimonio storico-artistico tra tutela e
valorizzazione / a cura di Anna Maria Spiazzi, Chiara
Rigoni, Monica Pregnolato ; con prefazione di Mario
Isnenghi. - Vicenza : Terra Ferma, [2008]. - 501 p. : ill.
; 28x21 cm
Sul front. : Soprintendenza per i beni storici, artistici ed
etnoantropologici per le province di Venezia, Belluno,
Padova e Treviso. - ISBN 9788863220209 (€ 35,00)
This publication is
dedicated to
researchers and
specialists but also
to a larger public. It
aims to inform and
give evidence of the
impact of WWI on
Italy’s territory,
especially in Veneto,
in order to help understanding the changes
and damages on the cultural and historical
heritage. It underlines in particular the efforts
made to protect and safeguard heritage, to
restore the most damaged works of art or
requalify them. And it also provides the reader
with information on the many debates on the
various methods to transport works of art and
on the security measures for frescos and
buildings in an attempt – sometimes
successful and sometimes not – to protect
them.
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Nicolò dell’Abate alla corte dei Boiardo: il Paradiso
ritrovato / a cura di Angelo Mazza, Massimo Mussini.
- Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana, [2009]. - 334 p. : ill. ;
29x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Scandiano, dal 10
maggio all’11 ottobre 2009 (€ 35,00)
At the conclusion of
the restoration work
of the Rocca di
Scandiano, the
publication
illustrates the
activity of Nicolò
dell’Abate and the
painting of the
Sixteenth Century between Italy and Paris
through 80 works of art. The restoration work
of the Castle has uncovered paintings by
Nicolò dell’Abate who decorated it around
1540-1543 with the depiction of the Nuptials
of Psyche on the ceiling as well as supporting
figures in the room identified by critics as the
Chamber of Paradise. The sensational
discovery has stirred a painstaking campaign
of restorations and studies which has been
addressed to one of the greatest moments of
artistic, literary and cultural history of
Scandiano and of the Duchy at large: that
promoted by the humanist sensitivity of the
Boiardo family. The volume presents
contributions by several scholars on the theme
of recovering the ancient artistic heritage of
the castle and documenting the restoration
work by Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence.
Nicolò dell’Abate (Modena, 1510 ca. –
Fontainebleau, 1571) famous Italian painter
represents a key personage of European
Mannerism, especially active in Soragna,
Busseto, Sassuolo, Reggio Emilia, and
Modena and in the last twenty years of his life
in Paris.
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L’officina neoclassica : dall’accademia de’ pensieri
all’Accademia d’Italia / a cura di Francesco Leone,
Fernando Mazzocca. - Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana,
2009. - 191 p. : ill. ; 28x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Faenza nel 2009 (€
32,00)
The exhibit is held in
the prestigious
context of Palazzo
Milzetti in Faenza.
With some 70 works
of exceptional value,
it remembers the
birth and
development of
Neoclassic figurative
arts, which is one of
the greatest moments of Italian artistic history
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that took place between the end of the 18th
Century and the beginning of the 19th Century,
that is from the inauguration of the Accademia
de’ Pensieri by Felice Giani to the creation of
the Accademia d’Italia by Antonio Canova. The
main representative of the cultural climate of
the Italian Neoclassicism, who were linked to
Faenza and Romagna, were Tommaso Minardi
and Felice Giani who is also the author of
beautiful paintings in Palazzo Milzetti. Among
the numerous paintings and drawings
exhibited, some are showed for the first time.
And some are works by Francesco Hayez, Luigi
Sabatelli, Pelagio Palagi, Vincenzo
Camuccini, Giuseppe Cades, Andrea Appiani.
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Omaggio a Umberto Boccioni / a cura di = edited by
Bruno Cora, Tonino Sicoli e Cristina Sonderegger. Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana, [2009]. - 191 p. : ill. ;
28x25 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Lugano nel 2009. Testo anche in inglese. - In cop.: Museo d’arte della
Città di Lugano (€ 30,00)
The present
publication offers a
review of Umberto
Boccioni’s works
recollected in an
exhibit at the Art
Museum of Lugano,
on the occasion of
the centenary of the
birth of Futurism.
The exhibit shows for
the first time two important blocks. First, the
works on paper bought by Italy at the sale of the
Winston Malbin Collection and that are now kept
at the National Gallery of Cosenza. And, second,
the 21 pre-futuristic works donated by Chiattone
and now part of the collection of the city of
Lugano. There is also a selection of paintings,
drawings and engravings that come from Italian
and Swiss private and public collections. Such
clearly philological intent aims to illustrate the
main steps in Boccioni’s activity, from pre22
futuristic experiences until full maturity, and to
highlight the specific outcome of the sketches in
which he captured his feelings that are first
steps towards his future works and are essential
to understand them.
Umberto Boccioni (Reggio Calabria, 1882 –
Verona, 1916) is known as one of the major
exponents of the avant-garde movement of
Futurism as well as the artist who most
contributed to its birth and development.
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Ottobre piovono libri 2008 : i luoghi della lettura / a
cura del Centro per il libro e la lettura. - Roma :
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, Direzione
generale per i beni librari, gli istituti culturali ed il
diritto d’autore, 2008. - XVI, 316 p. : ill. ; 20x20 cm. –
(Quaderni di Libri e riviste d’Italia ; 60)
In testa al front.: MiBAC, Centro per il libro e la lettura,
UPI, Conferenza delle regioni e delle province
autonome, Associazione nazionale comuni italiani
Every year, the
Center for Books and
Literature organizes
a national campaign
to promote books
and the spread of
literature together
with the Regions,
Provinces and
Communes and with
the involvement of
associations, foundations, cultural circles,
book shop owners, and publishers for the
purpose of attracting as much as possible
various kinds of readers who can be identified
by age, professions, interests and others to
books and literature. The volume documents
the activities carried out throughout Italy in
2008 and constitutes a data bank of the
initiatives thus making them available to all.
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Il palazzo Chigi Zondadari a San Quirico d’Orcia :
architettura e decorazione di un palazzo barocco / a
cura di Margherita Eichberg e Felicia Rotundo ; testi di
Alessandro Angelini ... [et al.] ; introduzione di Mario
Lolli Ghetti. - [San Quirico d’Orcia] : DonChisciotte,
2009. - 398 p. : ill. ; 29x24 cm
ISBN 8888889167 (€ 38,00)
This volume collects
information on the
long restoration of
Palazzo Chigi
Zondadari that lasted
for more than 15
years. The
restoration was
conducted by
architects, restorers,
researchers and
specialists who recurred to special techniques
and up-dated technological devices. It gave
back splendour to a building that has a high
historic-artistic and architectural value and
restored its historical representative function.
The publication also provides us with an
outlook of the history of San Quirico d’Orcia
and of Tuscany through many contributions by
historians, architects, restorers and historians
of art.
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Palazzo Grimani a Santa Maria Formosa : storia, arte,
restauri / a cura di Annalisa Bristol. - Verona : Scripta
edizioni, c2008. - 219 p. : ill. ; 30x23 cm (€ 30,00)
The publication
documents the
painstaking
restorations carried
out by the
Superintendence for
Architectural and
Landscape Heritage
of Venice on Palazzo
Grimani, returning
that museum to the
Venetian cultural setting. The volume delves
into the history and the various events which
unfolded in the Palazzo, a magnificent example
of Sixteenth Century architecture made even
more precious by rich decorations executed by
outstanding artists such as Giovanni da Udine,
Camillo Mantovano, Francesco Salviati,
Federico Zuccari. The reconstruction process
which recovered one of the most extraordinary
buildings of the Sixteenth Century from decay
is also studied, as well as the operation of
enhancing the value of the heritage asset
which was begun one year after the purchase
of the building and is aimed at the knowledge,
interpretation, preservation and selection of
the best design solutions for the exhibition
needs of the rooms.
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Palma Bucarelli: il Museo come Avanguardia / a cura
di Mariastella Margozzi - Milano : Electa, 2009. 28x24 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta alla Galleria nazionale
moderna di Roma nel 2009. - ISBN 9788837069902
(€ 40,00)
The exhibit aims to
present the story of
Palma Bucarelli, for
the centenary of her
birth. She is
remembered as the
one who re-founded
the National Gallery
of Modern Art in
Rome. In Italy, she
has been the first
director and the first superintendent of the
Gallery from 1942 to 1975. She showed a great
ability in promoting Italian and foreign
contemporary arts and she worked out the
first museographic layout of the Gallery. One
hundred and fifty works (paintings, sculptures,
graphic arts, historic photographs) and the
many critical reviews in the catalogue give
evidence of her ability to make judgements
and choices and of her new approach to
museum management.
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Per Girolamo dai Libri: pittore e miniatore del
rinascimento veronese / a cura di Gino Castiglioni,
con la collaborazione di Gianni Peretti. - [Venezia] :
Marsilio, 2008. - 132 p. : ill. ; 29x22 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Verona nel 2008-2009.
- ISBN 9788836613830 (€ 30,00)
The exhibition
presents a precious
and numerous
nucleus of
miniatures on
parchment donated
to by Count
Giambattista Buri in
1883 to the Museo
civico di Verona. The
exhibition also
studies the aspects of the Renaissance
civilization which are not only expressed in
painting, in sculpture and in architecture, but
also in books. In Verona the art library of the
Renaissance draws upon a very ancient
tradition, which was born in the scriptorium of
the Chapter House of the cathedrals starting
from the early Middle Ages and unfolds over
the entire development of manuscripts. Within
this panorama of great artistic activity we find
the work of the miniaturist and painter
Girolamo Dai Libri, in which knowledge of
Italian art of the Fifteenth Century is married
with precious illuminations and a precision of
details whose roots are set into the refined
Gothic Veronese tradition of Pisanello. The
series of miniatures, the books and painting
are all reproduced in colours and supported by
explanatory notes and the related
bibliographies. The scholarly notes are formed
by a section on restoration of miniatures, a
glossary, the registry of documents
concerning Dai Libri family and the general
bibliography of the artist.
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Pier Pander 1864-1919: scultore olandese a Roma :
Museo Hendrik C. Andersen, 7 febbraio - 6 aprile
2008. - Roma : Palombi, 2008. - 48 p. : ill. ; 26x21 cm
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Pubbl. in occasione della mostra. - ISBN
9788860601223 (€ 12,00)
The exhibit is a
tribute to the life and
work of the sculptor
Pier Pander and
presents some works
selected from the
Fries Museum and
the Pier Pander
Museum of
Leeuwarden. The
artist’s production
shows a clear search for new expressive forms
and a great variety of works: elegant basreliefs, portraits or full relief allegoric
sculptures. Moreover the exhibit points out
the ideal relationship between the sculptor
and Hendrik Christian Andersen whom houseatelier in Rome hosts his works and who
shared with him the same utopian visions.
Pier Pander (Drachten 1864 – Rome 1919) was
a renowned sculptor. He was born in Frisia and
studied in Amsterdam and Paris before he
moved to Rome in 1890, but he always kept
strong contacts with Holland.
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Pietro Toesca e la fotografia : saper vedere / a cura
di Paola Callegari ed Edith Gabrielli. - Milano : Skira,
[2009]. - 255 p. : ill. ; 29x25 cm
In testa al frontespizio: Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali, Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la
documentazione. - ISBN 9788861300170 (€ 40,00)
This publication is
the result of
historical research
on photography and
on the consideration
that scholars have of
it, with particular
reference to the socalled “reproduction
photography”, aimed
at reproducing works
of art. In this context, an essential role is
played by Pietro Toesca, one of the key
players of Twentieth Century art who
continuously and studiously used photography,
dedicating a great deal of his thoughts to it.
The volume studies the relationship with this
kind of images and gives us an insight into an
entire moment in Italian art history, with
which Toesca constitutes the bridge between
two generations of art scholars, that formed in
the second half of the 19th Century and that of
the new future scholars Roberto Longhi and
Federico Zeri, with their own various ways of
comprehending the relationship with the
means provided by the photograph..
Giovanni Pietro Toesca (Pietra Ligure, July
1877 – Rome, March 1962), Italian art
historian, was a student of Adolfo Venturi in
Rome. He began his career as professor at the
Accademia scientifico-letteraria of Milan, in
1905, he then taught at the Universities of
Turin. Among his most famous students are
Roberto Longhi and Ernst Kitzinger.
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La Pinacoteca del Museo nazionale G. A. Sanna di
Sassari : catalogo storico-documentario / Gianpietro
Dore. - Roma : De Luca Editori d’arte, [2008]. -516 p. :
ill. ; 24x17 cm. – (Musei / Istituto centrale per il
catalogo e la documentazione ; 2)
In testa al front.: Ministero per i beni e le attività
culturali; Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la
documentazione; Soprintendenza archeologica per le
province di Sassari e Nuoro. - ISBN 9788880168898
(€ 62,00)
The publication
offers the public the
possibility to gain an
in-depth knowledge
of the rich, vast and
varied heritage of
works of art which
have flowed into the
Museum named after
Giovanni Antonio
Sanna, who left in
his will, a donation of a collection of 250
painting which allowed the“Regio Museo
Antiquario” to be set up in 1878, and later the
institution of the current Museo Nazionale
“G.A. Sanna” of Sassari where more that 500
works are kept which the scientific curator
Gianpietro Dore presents in this volume
employing a rigorous archive studies,
explaining each and every aspect, from the
question of attribution to the dating, including
the historical-critical debate concerning the
pieces, from the bibliography to the archive
documentation. The catalogue, is primarily
constituted painting of various schools,
ranging from Italian and European artists of
the Middle Ages to the first half of the
Twentieth Century, documents the great value
of the prestigious collection preserved in the
museum.
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Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787): l’Europa delle corti e il
Grand Tour / a cura di Liliana Barroero, Fernando
Mazzocca. - Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana, [2008]. - 431
p. : ill. ; 28x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Lucca nel 2008-2009. ISBN 9788836611751 (€ 35,00)
On the occasion of
the celebrations of
the third centennial
of his birth, the
exhibition covers the
entire artistic
development of the
career of Pompeo
Batoni, one of the
most sought after
painters and portrait
painters of the Eighteenth Century. The
various phases of his artistic production are
illustrated: from his beginnings to his being
drawn to the great classicist traditions, to the
painting of mythological and sacred subjects,
to portraits, including “State” portraits as
well as those of the Grand Tour travelers, and
drawings. More than one hundred works,
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coming from private and public American and
European collections, which allow us to
understand the Batoni’s artistic development
and delve into a period of Italian art which is
perhaps not given its true importance, also
thanks to exhaustive studies, on the painting
and society of the age, which is present in the
catalogue.
Pompeo Batoni (Lucca, 1708 – Rome, 1787),
outstanding Tuscan painter of the Eighteenth
century, received his training in Lucca and
emerged as a painter in Rome and then
especially in England, where he became one
of the most sought out artists of the
aristocracy.
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Il presepe del re nella collezione del Museo nazionale
delle arti e tradizioni popolari / [a cura di] Stefania
Massari. - [Roma] : De Luca editori d’arte, [2006]. 380 p. : ill. ; 24x17 cm
In cop.: Mat, Museo nazionale delle arti e tradizioni
popolari. - ISBN 8880167561 (€ 30,00)
The publication
documents the
exceptional
collection of the
Neapolitan manger
scene figurines,
approximately one
thousand crèche
pieces from between
1700 and 1800,
collected by the
ethnologist Lamberto Loria on the occasion
the 1911 Exhibition of Italian Ethnography
which was then incorporated in to the Royal
Museum of Ethnography of 1923. It is a
“material as well as immaterial heritage”
which links profane beliefs and popular
religiosity, art and craftsmanship, current
preserved in the Museo Nazionale delle Arti e
Tradizioni Popolari of Rome. The in-depth
knowledge of such a heritage allows us to
better understand the tradition of the socalled “figurari”, the craftsmen specialized
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in this figures, artists who married together
their creative capacity with superb
craftsmanship.
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Raffaello e Urbino: la formazione giovanile e i rapporti
con la città natale / a cura di Lorenza Mochi Onori. Milano : Electa, [2009]. - 342 p. : ill. ; 28x25 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Urbino, dal 4 aprile al
12 luglio 2009. - Errata corrige all. - ISBN
9788837068127 (€ 42,00)
The publication
seeks to highlight
and enhance the
value of the close
link between
Raphael and Urbino,
the city of his birth,
through the
presentation of the
youthful
masterpieces of the
artist, 20 paintings and 19 original drawings,
which are directly compared to the painting of
his father Giovanni Santi and other artists that
were close to him in the youthful phase of his
training. The artistic-cultural settings in
which young painter began to manifest his
talent are studied as well as the context in
which his father, a painter, man of court and
letters worked. His father ran a rich and
flourishing workshop in which Raphael was
able to learn the craft. There is finally, a very
interesting section dedicated to the
relationship between the artist and the most
important production of the duchy of Urbino:
majolica.
Raffaello Sanzio (Urbino, 1483 – Rome, 1520),
famous Italian painter and architect, one of
the most important artist of the Italian
Renaissance.
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Salvator Rosa: tra mito e magia. - Napoli : Electa
Napoli, [2008]. - 300 p. : ill. ; 29x25 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Napoli nel 2008. - ISBN
9788851005214 (€ 45,00)
The first great
exhibit ever
organised in Italy on
Salvator Rosa aims
to celebrate and
further analyse the
Neapolitan artist’s
production, in
occasion of the
fiftieth anniversary
of the opening to the
public of the Museum of Capodimonte. The
exhibit aims to point out the specific part of
his paintings dedicated to the “creation of
figures” like sorcery, philosophical allegories,
sacred and mythological stories and portraits.
An international scientific committee selected
the works and gave a valuable contribution
with the critical essays that are published in
the catalogue. The selection recollects about
eighty paintings that come from Italian,
European and American museums and from
private collections, as well as many
engravings.
Salvator Rosa (Naples, 1615 – Rome, 1673)
was a leading figure of the 17th Century in
Naples and especially in Florence and Rome.
He was a painter, an inventive poet and a
refined musician. All his work expresses a
dissent, which he shared with others of his
generation, towards religious and political
power.
Schifano, 1934-1998 / a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva. Milano : Electa, [2008]. - 242 p. : ill. ; 29x25 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Roma, Milano e SaintEtienne nel 2008-2009. - ISBN 9788837062309 (€
40,00)
On the tenth
anniversary of his
death, the exhibit
outlines the artistic
portrait of Mario
Schifano within an
exceptionally
complete vision of
his work that
illustrates both his
extraordinary talent
and his continuous and frenetic production.
The exhibit selects about seventy paintings
from both early and mature moments of each
period and aims to make us perceive the great
variety of the themes, either linked to history
or to the present, from which the artist took
his inspiration. In addition to the paintings,
the exhibit also presents a section of fifty
drawings and another section dedicated to his
photographs and the movies he directed.
Mario Schifano (Homs, 1934 – Rome, 1998)
was an Italian painter and a milestone in
Italian and European Contemporary Art.
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Uno sguardo su Venezia : Canaletto a Miramare /
[mostra e catalogo a cura di: Fabrizio Magani e
Rossella Fabiani]. - Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana
Editoriale, [2009]. - 87 p. : ill. ; 28x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Trieste, Museo Storico
del Castello di Miramare, Sala della Rosa dei Venti, 18
aprile-2 agosto 2009 (€ 20,00)
The exhibition seeks
to render homage to
the great Venetian
master Giovanni
Antonio Canal also
known as Canaletto,
bringing our
attention in
particular to an
important series of
drawings which have
become part of the collections in the Galleria
Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Trieste since 1973.
The exhibition seeks to illustrate the creative
process of the artist who starting from
“quickly jotted sketches”, on paper,
progressively elaborates real and genuine
preparatory drawings for paintings. The
collection made up of seven examples of
which three have drawings on both sides of
the paper, is complemented by a choice
collection of Nineteenth Century painting
coming from the collections of Ferdinand
Maximillan of Hapsburg and Charlotte of
Saxony Coburg Gotha.
Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto
(Venice, 1697 - 1768) was one of the most
important painters and engravers of the Italian
18th Century, an excellent interpreter of
Vedutismo.
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Simonetta: la prima donna della moda italiana :
[Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, 9
gennaio-17 febbraio 2008] / [a cura di] Vittoria C.
Caratozzolo, Judith Clark, Maria Luisa Frisa. - Venezia :
Marsilio ; Firenze : Fondazione Pitti Discovery, 2008. 191 p. : ill. ; 21x16 cm. – (Mode ; 7)
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Pubbl. in occasione della mostra. - ISBN
9788831793988 (€ 20,00)
This publication is
dedicated to
Simonetta Colonna
di Cesarò, the
charismatic and
eccentric figure of
the late 20th Century
haute couture but
also a fashion
designer and a style
icon. This portrait
outlines the modernity and the multitalented
personality of one of the first women in the
world of Italian fashion. It also underlines
the complex network of influences that
“donna Simonetta”, with her own work and
her special look, was able to have and is still
having on new generations of designers.
More than fifty models are presented
together with some of the portraits that
turned her in a famous “image-myth”, and
some pictures taken by the greatest
photographers.
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Spigolature dal fondo Ojetti: immagini dalla rivista
Dedalo / a cura di Marilena Tamassia. - Livorno :
Sillabe, [2008]. - 107 p. : ill. ; 21x21 cm
Sul front.: Soprintendenza speciale per il patrimonio
storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico e per il polo
museale della città di Firenze. - Catalogo della mostra
tenuta a Firenze nel 2008. - ISBN 9788883474750 (€
12,00)
This publication
proposes a selection
of images that
illustrate the
photographic
material of the
historical review
“Dedalo” and that
are now collected in
the “Ojetti fund”, a
heritage of the writer, art critic and journalist
Ugo Ojetti. The fund includes more than 400
photographs, either used in the review or in
other authors’ historic-artistic publications.
They have still bright, accurate and clear
features. Moreover, one of the essays focuses
on the way “Dedalo” interpreted and guided
Italian and international artistic culture in the
early 20th Century, in all sectors of past and
present applied arts.
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La strada che parte da Roma : Biblioteca Nazionale
Centrale, Roma 13 ottobre 2008 - 10 gennaio 2009 / a
cura di Flora Parisi. - Roma : Colombo, 2008. - XXIII,
208 p., [4! c. di tav.] : ill. ; 30 cm
Catalogo della mostra. - ISBN 9788862630139 (€
30,00)
“La strada che parte
da Roma” is the
catalogue of an
outstanding
exhibition organised
thanks to a
collaboration
between the Central
National Library in
Rome and the Road
Police that, together
with the Minister for transports, Ania and
Anas, hase been carrying out for years a
strong campaign for awareness-raising on
security on the road. The exhibition goes back
chronologically to the origin of roads, from the
Roman times to modern era but it also
presents graphic and pictorial works to
illustrate the process. It also offers
cartographic documents on road conditions in
Rome’s hinterland, information on past and
present instruments used to measure them and
on the way roads have been described in
literature on travelling through Italy. It points
out how roads – the first trace of man on the
territory – have always been a place for
exchanges and have been evolving and
developing.
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Taihe Dian : hall of supreme harmony of the forbidden
city in Beijing : a cultural cooperation programme for
the preservation of the Taihe hall of the forbidden
city in Beijing : scientific report / edited by Laura Moro.
- Roma : Gangemi, stampa 2008. - 135 p. : ill. ; 24x22
cm
ISBN 9788849215571 (€ 22,00)
outstanding pieces, paintings by Agnolo Gaddi
and Filippo Lippi, but also works by Giovanni
Maria Butteri and Giovan Battista Caracciolo.
Various essays and in-depth studies precede
the chronological display of the works in the
exhibition, supported by detailed explanation
cards.
The book illustrates
the results of a
project of cultural
cooperation between
China and Italy which
took place between
November 2003 and
April 2004, for the
conservation of the
Hall of Supreme
Harmony (in Chinese
Taihe dian) of the Forbidden City of Beijing.
The architectural survey, aimed at the
knowledge, documentation, protection and
enhancement of the lodge, highlighting the
geometric aspects, materials and construction
techniques. The photograph support is
extremely rich.
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Tra il sacro e il profano : opere scelte del Museo
civico di Prato. - Firenze : Contemporanea, [2008]. 190 p. : ill. ; 30x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Barcellona nel 2008. ISBN 9788895779034 (€ 33,00)
The exhibition,
which was held in
the Caixa Forum of
Barcellona, hosted
part of the collection
of the Museo Civico
di Prato: fifty-nine
masterpieces, among
paintings of canvas
and panels, frescos
bas-reliefs in
terracotta and majolica and pieces of
goldsmiths’ art. Among these, there are
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Vincenzo Pagani: un pittore devoto tra Crivelli e
Raffaello : [Fermo, Palazzo dei Priori, 31 maggio-9
novembre 2008] / catalogo della mostra a cura di
Vittorio Sgarbi ; con la collaborazione di Walter
Scotucci. - Cinisello Balsamo : Silvana Editoriale,
[2008]. - 237 p. : ill. ; 28x23 cm
Catalogo della mostra promossa dalla Soprintendenza
per il patrimonio storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico
delle Marche. - ISBN 9788836611164 (€ 35,00)
The first
monographic
exhibition dedicated
to Vincenzo Pagani,
casts new light on
this important artist
and on the links
between his
activities to other
currents of painting
in the Marches of the
Sixteenth Century.
More than fifty works are displayed coming
from several Italian and foreign museums
cast light on the profound spirituality and
devotion of his artistic production and
especially investigates the influence he drew
from the works of Carlo Crivelli as well as of
other Italian and European artists, of whom
the young Raphael stands out. The works of
other artists who took part in the creation of
the fervent cultural climate of the age such as
Palmezzano, Signorelli, Raffaellino del Colle
and Raphael Sanzio are consequently
illustrated.
Vincenzo Pagani (Monterubbiano, 1490 circa –
1567) was a great painter of the Italian
Sixteenth Century. He was trained in his
father’s workshop and was in contact first
with the works of Carlo Crivelli and later with
those of several Italian and foreign artists.
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Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca : con tre
indici delle voci, locuzioni, e proverbi Latini, e Greci,
posti per entro l’Opera. - Firenze ; Varese : Era
Edizioni, 2008. - (34), 960, (104) p. ; 35 cm
Rist. anast. dell’ed.: Venezia, 1612 (€ 470,00)
The long awaited
Vocabolario degli
Accademici della
Crusca project was
started between
1582 and 1583 by
Lionardo Salviati to
endow Italy with an
ambitious and
authoritative
instrument which
normalizes the literary usage of the Italian
language, and was completed after nearly
twenty years of team work by the scholars of
the Accademia della Crusca: under the
supervision of Bastiano de’ Rossi, and was
published in 1612 in Venice by the printer
Giovanni Alberti. With its publication a
homogeneous and regulated model of the
Italian language was established based on the
imitation of the great masterpieces of
Florentine literature, especially Dante’s
Commedia, the Canzoniere of Petrarc, and the
Decameron of Boccaccio. The Vocabolario
degli Accademici della Crusca represents a
vital and indispensable passage of Italy’s
linguistic history. The Accademia della
Crusca and ERA Edizioni have reprinted a
prestigious copy of the first “impression” of
1612, published in Venice on the printing
press of Giovanni Alberti. In this way the work
which marked one of the decisive events of
the Italian language, comparable only to the
literary masterpieces of the Fourteenth
Century has been made available to the
public.
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e generale per il
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ma : Istituto
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SOME OF THE MINISTRY'S REVIEWS EXHIBITED AT THE 61ST FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR