Carpaccio (1460?-1525) is best known for his large paintings still in their original sites in Venice, among them: the life of Saint Ursula in the Scuola di Sant'Orsola, and the stories of Saint Jerome and Saint George in the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni. The author, an art scholar and flamb

Carpaccio

Arts & Photography

Sgarbi, Vittorio

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

How artists from Giotto to Caravaggio have written a visual biography of Christ through the finest masterpieces in the history of art. In the Name of the Son approaches figurative art through the lens of the greatest mystery of mankind: the life of Jesus Christ. From the late medieval period through the Renaissance and the Baroque era, the task of conferring an image onto Christ—whose physical aspect was never described in Scripture—fell to artists, who depicted him at every stage of life and in a multitude of roles. In the 350 images in this lavishly illustrated volume, Vittorio Sgarbi considers the variety and power of these portrayals: depictions of joy, suffering, anger, surprise, unmistakable judgment, mercy, weakness, gentleness, friendship, and even whimsy. The result moves beyond art to explore how it was the image of the Son, and not the Father, that amplified the words of Scripture and inspired levels of devotion that have been unmatched in human history.

In the Name of the Son: The Life of Jesus in Art, from the Nativity to the Passion

Religious

Rizzoli Ex Libris

Carpaccio: Leben und Werk (German Edition)

Hirmer Verlag GmbH

A regola d'arte: Libri, quadri, poesie : nuove lezioni sul bello (Ingrandimenti) (Italian Edition)

Mondadori

Balthus

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Giunti Editore

Davanti all'immagine (Italian Edition)

Rizzoli

Catalogue of the show put on at the Strozzi Palace in Florence between 10th June and 10th September 2000. This great anthology of Pietro Annigoni’s work appears seventy years after his first exhibition and contains over 150 paintings and 50 studies, lithographs, etchings, illustrated books and documents from private and public collections. The material reproduced and exhibited in this volume follows every turn of the artist’s creative itinerary. It offers an evaluation of this talented painter, who was born into a century of great revolution and controversy: it takes stock of an artist whose unique technical abilities allowed him to realise a host of monumental works, rare in their effectiveness and ranging from painting to sculpture, from fresco to engraving. Introduction by Antonio Paolucci Biography edited by Gilberto Grilli Chronology of exhibitions and principal works Gabriele Mazzanti.

Annigoni: Catalogo della mostra

De Grada, Raffaele

Paloscia, Tommaso

Ulivi, Ferruccio

Edizioni Polistampa

The work of Romualdo Locatelli, a renowned 20th-century Italian painter.\nRomualdo Locatelli (1905-1943) is considered the leading Italian exponent of that particular Orientalist genre of painting known as “Mooi Indie ”. From the early successes at the Carrara Academy, to the main Italian art scenes of Brera Academy in Milan and “via Margutta” in Rome, where he became the most sought portraitist under the royal and papal patronage, he reached the peak of his art production in Bali, the island of the gods (1939).\nThroughout Southeast Asia’s history of foreign relations, there have been several moments of cross-cultural connections that were immortalized on canvas. Romualdo Locatelli is responsible for capturing such intimate moments. In turn, traveling and settling in the Far East transformed his oeuvre and his legacy to the art world. It may be said that the region itself, particularly Bali, became a muse for the artist, who found in this land his greatest inspiration, mesmerized by the wild and untouched nature, by the intense and sophisticated sensuality of her women, and by the mystery and diversity of these unknown lands.\nThe Oriental experience, together with his passion for the observation of human nature and continuous research through painting, can be considered both the pillar and the watershed of his lifetime work.

Romualdo Locatelli An Artistic Voyage from Rome, the Eternal City, to Bali, the Island of the Gods /

Skira

In Dreaming Venice, Italy's top photographer Fernando Bertuzzi projects a traditional and true image of Venice. His desire is to present a Venice that is as close to the detailed and precisely proportioned city as portrayed by artists such as Ponti, Naya, and Canaletto.

Dreaming Venice

Photography & Video

Grafiche Vianello Srl

Art critic, historian, writer, TV presenter, politician and professional provocateur, Vittorio Sgarbi is a prominent figure in Italy's cultural landscape. Controversial, often caustic, and always charismatic, his thought-provoking opinions and writings leave no room for indifference. In this highly readable and well-informed book, Sgarbi covers the life and works of Caravaggio, analyzing the genius's disordered and adventurous existence and the revolutionary greatness of his masterpieces. As Vittorio Sgarbi writes in the book: "The life and work of an artist always end up looking alike; but in Caravaggio's life there was a sense of fun, an enjoyment of burlesque and a lack of propriety that is not reflected even in his in most daring works. In Caravaggio, we had the cohabitation of a sophisticated, intellectual capable of imprinting an ideal turning point in the course of history and the principal character of an adventure story-quarrelsome, overbearing, cursed-as he was portrayed in romantic interpretations. On the other hand, his intemperance cannot be ascribed to the spirit of the times; behavior that we would call extravagant today was instead common in such violent and difficult times. The true greatness of Caravaggio lay in his having shown the other, and indeed authentic side of reality. But these are external elements, psychological reflections that pass from life into art."

Caravaggio

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