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In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson's death at age 94. This book makes available, for the first time, the complete correspondence between two of the most influential figures in the 20th-century art world, and gives a new and unique insight into their lives and motivations. The letters are arranged into ten chronological sections, each accompanied by biographical details and providing the context for the events and personalities referred to. They were both talented letter writers: informative, spontaneous, humorous, gossipy, and in their frequent letters they exchanged news and views about art and politics, friends and family life, collectors, connoisseurship, discoveries, books read and written, and travel. Berenson advised Clark on his blossoming career, warning against the museum and commercial art worlds while encouraging his promise as a writer and interpreter of the arts. Above all, these letters trace the development of a deep and intimate friendship.
Italian Medieval Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters
"The collection of Italian medieval sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters began with the acquisition in 1908 of a Romanesque column statue; today the Museum's holdings comprise more than seventy works dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century ... The birthplaces of these works range from Sicily to Venice; some typify local styles, others illustrate the intense artistic exchanges taking place within Italy and between Italy and the wider world ... Technological advances of the last decades have made it possible to determine more precisely the materials and techniques from which works of art are made, the history of their alteration, and the mechanisms of their...
Picturing the Bible
Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and shown there November 18, 2007 - March 30, 2008.
Snodi di critica
Gli anni Trenta «non sono un decennio – scrive Elena Pontiggia – sono un secolo». L’epigrafe coglie in pieno il valore di un periodo frastagliato e denso della vita culturale italiana. Un periodo di cui questo volume fornisce un’analisi che, con aperture e affondi, rileva la varietà delle possibili correlazioni critiche tra le dimensioni dei musei, delle mostre, del restauro, delle tecniche e della diagnostica artistica misurate in rapporto alle istanze coeve della compagine internazionale interpretata da un protagonista come Henry Focillon. Dentro un quadro intenso di rimandi si sono colte strategie ed evidenziate incoerenze che intercettano i percorsi culturali dei protagonisti ...
The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe
Just over a century after his death, Walter Pater's critical reputation now stands as high as it has ever been. In the English-speaking world, this has involved recovery from the widespread neglect and indifference which attended his work in the first half of the twentieth century. In Europe, however, enthusiastic disciples such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the German-speaking world and Charles Du Bos in France, helped to fuel a growing awareness of his writings as central to the emergence of modernist literature. Translations of works like Imaginary Portraits, established his distinctive voice as an aesthetic critic and his novel, Marius the Epicurean, was enthusiastically received in Paris in the 1920s and published in Turin on the eve of the Second World War. This collection traces the fortunes of Pater's writings in these three major literatures and their reception in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
There was no sharp break between classical and medieval map making. Contributions by thirteen scholars offer fresh insight that demonstrates continuity and adaptation over the long term. This work reflects current thinking in the history of cartography and opens new directions for the future.
Saccargia
The book provides a detailed description of the architectural structure and the different phases of construction of the monastic complex. Particular attention is devoted to the pictorial cycle, to the architectural sculptures of the porch, and of those randomly placed inside the church, especially to the binate capitals from the cloister. Finally, a stylistic and iconographic reading of the Retablos, formerly belonging to the Basilica, and now preserved at CE. DO. C. Of Codrongianos, complete the work.
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