Dizionario illustrato dei pittori, disegnatori e incisori italiani moderni e contemporanei. Aa-Cau (Volume primo)

Giovanni Sarpellon
Arsenale editrice

G. Lorenzetti, L. Planiscig
Coi tipi di Carlo Ferrari

Silvia Esposito
Gruppo Editoriale Electa

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Biennale di Venezia

Luciano Caramel, Carlo Pirovano
Electa

Alberto Fiz, Sergio Risaliti
Mondadori Electa

E. M. Stern, Toledo Museum of Art
L'Erma di Bretschneider

Founded by the glass manufacturer Edward Drummond Libbey at the beginning of this century, the Toledo Museum of Art today possesses one of the largest collections of glass in the world: some 6,000 pieces that document the artistic and technological evolution of glass from the Bronze Age to our own day. Second in the planned series for the scholarly publication of all the ancient glass in the collection, the volume includes 193 objects of blown glass made between the first and sixth centuries A.D.

Maria Silvia Proni
s.e.

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s.e.

Daniele Benati, Fernando Mazzocca, Alessandro Morandotti
Musei San Domenico

Anna Maria Donadori Roveri
Qibti

Annemarie Weyl Carr
Yale University Press

The Menil's collection of Byzantine and related icons is widely regarded as one of the most important in the United States. Comprising more than sixty works, many acquired by Dominique de Menil in 1985 from the noted British collector Eric Bradley, the group spans twelve hundred years, from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries, and encompasses a number of distinct cultures, including Greek, Balkan, and Russian. In this volume, the first publication to survey this diverse collection, leading scholars explore the history and meaning of these remarkable works, and their continuing power to surprise and impress.

Orthodox Christianity developed in the Near East during the Byzantine Empire, in time yielding eleven autocephalous communions of which the Greek, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, and Bulgarian Orthodox churches are the largest today. Each maintained the tradition of icon painting rooted in Byzantium but inflected it in distinctive ways. Transcending time and place through a delicate balance of tradition and innovation, these images of saintly or divine figures were designed to imprint their holy subjects on the human mind. Though largely dismissed as backward by Renaissance and Enlightenment Europeans, icons captured the imagination of early modernist painters, and contemporary audiences appreciate them as aesthetic objects.

Distributed for The Menil Collection

Exhibition Schedule:

The Menil Collection
(10/21/11-03/04/12)