Books

National Gallery of Umbria presents children's guide with Pimpa

In Perugia, the reopening of the National Gallery of Umbria after a year of work(in-depth report here, interview with director Marco Pierini here) never ceases to bring surprises. One of the funniest ones, which we had already anticipated on these pa...
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A book traces the events of the Sacred Speco of Subiaco between the two and fourteenth centuries

An important volume entirely dedicated to the Sacro Speco of Subiaco, the monastery of St. Benedict not far from Rome, was published by Mandragora a few weeks ago: the work of the young scholar Virginia Caramico, born in 1989, the book is entitled Il...
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Is the Mona Lisa in the Louvre the second version of Leonardo da Vinci's work?

Is the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci 's masterpiece preserved in the Louvre, the second version of a painting that the great Tuscan artist had begun earlier? This is the question posed by Salvatore Lorusso in his book Is the Louvre Mona Lisa Leonardo'...
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Proust and Berenson inquirers. A book on the relationship between literature and connoisseurship

On November 18, 1922, Marcel Proust disappeared in Paris, and on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the great French writer's death, the publishing house Officina Libraria is publishing a curious volume by art historian Mauro Minardi, titled Li...
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Who were the sculptors of the majesties, the votive reliefs of the Apuan Alps?

Who were the sculptors who carved the majesties, the votive reliefs that abound on the ancient roads of the Apuan Alps? This is the question that the book I maestri delle maestà aims to answer. Protagonists and Components, published by GD Edit...
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Book on the restoration of the San Marco Altarpiece by Beato Angelico is released

A book on the restoration of the San Marco altarpiece, the masterpiece by Beato Angelico that underwent a significant intervention in 2019 that returned it to the National Museum of San Marco in Florence in an excellent legible condition, is out. The...
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Book featuring the 100 masterpieces of Palazzo Barberini and Galleria Corsini is released

An agile volume to learn about the main masterpieces of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries in Rome. The wonders of Palazzo Barberini and Galleria Cors ini are offered to readers and the curious in the book Palazzo Barberini Galleria Corsini. 10...
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General catalog of Lorenzo Lotto's paintings by Enrico Dal Pozzolo published

The General Catalogue of the Paintings of Lorenzo Lotto (Venice, 1480 - Loreto, 1556/1557), a fundamental work for the knowledge of the great sixteenth-century Venetian painter, edited by one of his greatest specialists, Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, wit...
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Giovanni Muciaccia explains contemporary art in a book: his art attacks start here again

Contemporary Art Attacks. To Understand Art and Stimulate Creativity: this is the title of the book by Giovanni Muciaccia, the historic host of Art Attack, the highly popular children's program that taught how to build figures and objects from materi...
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Coming soon two books on Roberto Longhi and Giuliano Briganti. Their entire correspondence published

Coming to bookstores from Feb. 1, 2022, are two books that recount the long dialogue between two protagonists of 20th-century art history, Roberto Longhi (Alba, 1890 - Florence, 1970) and Giuliano Briganti (Rome, 1918 - 1992). Both are published by A...
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In bookstores Lovers in Art, graphic novel chronicling ten famous couples in art history

From February 3, 2022, Lovers in Art, the graphic novel that recounts, through the main episodes of their lives, the aspirations, difficulties and complicities of ten famous couples in art history, arrives in bookstores. Illustrated by Giancarlo Asca...
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From Tina Modotti to Gerda Taro, a book is coming out on 10 great 20th century female photographers

Coming out on February 3 is the book titled 10x10. Stories of Women Photographers, edited by Nicolas Ballario: the volume, published by 24 Ore Cultura, follows the success of the miniseries of documentaries also promoted by 24 Ore Cultura for Mudec i...
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Treccani, the first encyclopedia of contemporary art is born in collaboration with MAXXI

The first encyclopedia dedicated to contemporary art at the international level, published by Treccani, is born. It will be presented on Thursday, Jan. 13, at 6:30 p.m. at the MAXXI Auditorium, as part of the series of meetings Libri al MAXXI, promot...
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A new edition for Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus. With 17 new plates

Forty years have passed since, in 1981, Franco Maria Ricci published one of the craziest works of the twentieth century, Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini (Rome, 1949), the mysterious and enigmatic collection of plates that made up an encyclopedi...
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A book to reconstruct the story of the important Piccinelli collection, which was dispersed in the 1900s

A book dedicated to one of Lombardy's greatest collectors of the 19th century, the gentleman from Bergamo Antonio Piccinelli (Seriate, 1816 - 1891): this is La collezione di Antonio Piccinelli, a work by young art historian Luca Brignoli published by...
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Steve McCurry's new book, devoted entirely to childhood, out now

A newborn baby is carefully inspected in a hospital in Jaipur, a little girl smiles from a bench in Rome's Piazza Navona, and some little boys crowd in front of the camera in Havana: these are some of the stories told in Steve McCurry 's (Philadelphi...
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