Il revival

Davide Borsa
Guerini studio

Umberto Baldini, Pietro Alessandro Vigato
Edizioni Polistampa Firenze

This work is the result of a common effort carried out between scientists and enterprises: it is a significant example of what should be done all over the world when we deal with Cultural Heritage artefacts. The chapters of this book represent the various aspects of the work carried out on the mural paintings of Casa Vasari and show how accurately and precisely an artefact can be analyzed. Many scientists gave an important contribute to this work: from a chemical approach to a managerial one. An interdisciplinary work to understand, conserve and promote the frescoes of the great hall of Casa Vasari. Contributors: Baldini U., Becherini F., Bernardi A., Bianchin S., Bonaduce I., Botticelli G., Botticelli S., Calicchia P., Campani E., Cannelli G. B., Capitani D., Cappellini V., Casellato U., Casoli A., Chiavari G., Colombini M.P., Del Mastio A., De Rosa A., Nozzoli A., Prati S., Presciutti F., Proietti N., Rosina E., Rossi E., Segre A. L., Vigato P. A. English text.

Luigi Ballerini
Marsilio

"È un procedimento complesso quello che Ballerini attua nel mettere in forma un testo, tanto ricco di proposizioni e insegnamenti, quanto contenuto nell'estensione della sua stesura, che si sviluppa addizionando una considerevole densità di concetti e attraverso un esercizio irto di difficoltà che è inusuale reperire nei territori praticati dalla critica d'arte attitrée. È una scrittura petrosa quella che Ballerini ci dispensa, restia a rendersi da subito facilmente abbordabile, quanto, piuttosto, vocata a rivolgersi ad un uditorio scelto, cosciente di dover parlare a pochi attrezzati lettori; nella piena consapevolezza che, operando con la parola, la critica deve lavorare sulla parola, e quindi rinnovare il proprio lessico, inventare un proprio linguaggio, senza troppo preoccuparsi o, per meglio dire, prima di preoccuparsi, dell'accessibilità del risultato e della sua maggiore o minore difficoltà [...]. Ogni saggio di questo libro dà prova tangibile della volontà dell'autore di uscire dai canoni, di infrangere schemi, di creare spiazzamenti. Si manifesta con una strategia molto elaborata, ma diretta sempre ad un unico fine: rallentare il cammino di avvicinamento all'opera, in modo che essa si riveli gradualmente e appaia in tutta la sua potenza, solo quando sia sufficientemente ricca la dote del pellegrino [...]. Ballerini non è un critico d'arte professionale; egli è invece un poeta, attratto dalle arti visive e ammaliato da quella contemporanea (la scultura e la pittura, principalmente), che corteggia con elegante passione e di cui volentieri scrive, con risultati di eccellente rilievo." (dal saggio introduttivo di Pier Giovanni Castagnoli).

Martin Kemp, Pascal Cotte
Hodder & Stoughton

In October 2009, a major artwork by Leonardo da Vinci was uncovered. The 500 year-old portrait is one of the most extraordinary discoveries of our time. This is the story of how a team of experts - led by Professor Martin Kemp -pieced together the evidence, detailed historical research and technical analysis to follow a trail that leads back to the 15th Century. There is an element of mystery and an aura of mystical glamour that surrounds Leonardo. So when news of the discovery broke, it was met with astonishment, even disbelief. Here was a new work of art by a genius who left us astonishingly few - no more than a handful. Martin Kemp takes us on a journey of discovery recounting the steps he and Pascal Cotte took in authenticating the painting including the use of forensic methods usually reserved for criminal investigation. He recounts how experts matched a fingerprint found on La Bella Principessa to the great Renaissance master. This discovery throws new light on Leonardo da Vinci and his world. We learn the story of the girl who inspired the painting. The sitter, a beautiful young girl, displays a sense of melancholy and strength, a tender and fragile beauty. But who is she?By far the most likely candidate is the illegitimate daughter of Duke Ludovico Sforza. Martin Kemp tells, too, the tragic story of this princess who was to die when she was just fourteen years old. Previously changing hands for just GBP12,000, the painting is now thought to be worth something in the region of GBP150 million. As 'La Bella Principessa' (The Beautiful Princess) finally goes on display to the world, the people responsible for proving it is one of Leonardo da Vinci's tell the story of its discovery. Superbly researched and richly illustrated, La Bella Principessa reveals the Renaissance and its great master

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ISAL Istituto per la Storia dell'Arte Lombarda

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ISAL Istituto per la Storia dell'Arte Lombarda

Giorgio Soavi
Garzanti

Giulio Carlo Argan, Bruno Contardi
Sansoni

Giulio Carlo Argan, Bruno Contardi
Sansoni

Gregory Battcock
University of California Press

"So perspicuous was Battcock's choice of articles in Minimal Art that his book has proved to be an exceptionally telling index of the critical discourse of its time. This is the key primary source book—for that matter it remains the key book—on the subject of Minimal Art, a movement that has lately, newly become a topic of consuming interest to many modern art historians, critics, curators and artists."—Anna C. Chave, author of Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction

"Good criticism of contemporary art movements is both rare and scattered, and readers with access to a wide range of periodicals and catalogue introductions are few. . . Minimal Art is so obviously the most important movement of the 1960s, and equally certainly will continue to be so in the early 1970s, that this anthology will be a valuable compilation of statements by artists and assessments by critics."—David Irwin, Apollo

Giorgio Vasari
Rizzoli Editore

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Giulio Einaudi Editore