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Extract of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of Painters for all that concerns Arezzo

Edited by Margherita Melani
Preface by Antonino Caleca

In 1764 Giovanni Francesco de' Giudici completed a manuscript, now kept in the State Archives of Pisa, that we can quite properly consider a fundamental text in the history of the Arezzo artistic learning, beginning with the rich information supplied by Giorgio Vasari. This volume proposes the complete publication of the manuscript, a much characteristic document of the cult of the various memories that, after the impulse of Ludovico Antonio Muratori, spread in Italy in the heart of the eighteenth century, and also in the field of the history of art lead to a quick widening of knowledge.
The researches have shed light on the figure of Giovanni Francesco de' Giudici, a local erudite that we can follow since his education with father Lagomarsini, a glory of the convent of the Jesuits of Arezzo, in order then to see him collaborating with Lorenzo Guazzasi and Giacinto Fossombroni to look for information about the ancient and medieval Arezzo through the reorder of its city archives. Among the initiatives of this group of cultured people appears also the second edition of the Ragionamenti of Giorgio Vasari and the publication of other unknown reports concerning Arezzo.
The De' Giudici then, this time with the collaboration of Tommaso Gentili and the painter Ignazio Hugford, undertakes a new edition of the Lifes of Vasari, the fifth, begun in Livorno in 1767 and finished in Florence in 1772, three years after his death.

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Format Size: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 206
Cover: Paperback
Language: Italian
Cover price: € 14,00
ISBN-13: 978-88-88347-38-7

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Montreal: Let's celebrate together

alt The Centre Leonardo da Vinci in Montreal (Canada) has scheduled important events this year for the celebrations of the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy in collaboration with the Italian-Canadian Community Foundation, The Cultural Italian Institute and the Consulate General of Italy in Montrèal. The Centre has organised an exhibition on Leonardo’s machines, opened until 5th June, and some conferences given by Sara Taglialgamba.

The Temple of The Soul - Carlo Pedretti

The choice of the sheets of Windsor, with the addition of five sheets from
other collections, is motivated by a chronological outline that allows offering
a synthetic summary of the results achieved by Leonardo in almost thirty years
of assiduous researches in the fields of anatomy and physiology. The selection
moreover emphasizes how much of those researches must be ascribed to the
influence exercised by the tradition of anatomy teaching from the Middle
Ages up to the time of Leonardo, particularly in Bologna and with protagonists
that range from Mondinus to Zerbi and from Achillini to Berengarius - an
historical and cultural context of exceptional importance and complexity, that
is skillfully introduced in the opening essay of Paola Salvi. [...] It is the first
time also that these scientific studies are considered, compiling a catalogue, with particular attention to the relationship that they have with the artistic theories of Leonardo, above all as far as the principles of drawing applied to anatomy are concerned. For that reason the catalogue is meant not only as an updated instrument of consultation, but also as a guide dedicated to a wider public, in particular to the new generations of scholars to whom the occasion, more unique than rare, is now offered to approach scientific works that are also works of art.

"...Vinci - studying the human body as an anatomist - reaches in his drawings the light of the highest Style.
It can well be understood - in front of these pages - how in truth in this world there is but a temple: the temple where our soul lives."
Gabriele d'Annunzio

Technical Characteristics

Format Size: 24 x 28 cm
Illustrations: 148 color images
Pages: 240
Cover: Paperback
Languages: Italian, English
Cover price: € 35,00
ISBN-13: 978-88-95686-08-8 (English)
978-88-95158-12-9 (Italian)