Rome, 28 Jan. '10 (overall) in the historical Piazza Firenze, near the Parliament, have resumed "Thursday dell 'Arte": the expected weekly meetings on topics of' art and culture organized periodically by the "Società Dante Alighieri", the agency - founded in 1889 by Carducci - which one hundred and twenty has promoted the spread of Italian language and culture in the world.
Centered on the theme "The eye of the critic" ("History and Art History"), the lecture series 2010 s' opened with the presentation of the homonymous book, a collection of essays on the great Italian art historians nineteenth and twentieth centuries by various authors, edited by Alessandro Masi, an art historian and secretary general of the "Dante" (Florence, Vallecchi, 2009). After the greetings of the President of the "Dante", Ambassador Bruno Bottai (and son of the minister of fascist 'National Education was responsible for the historic 1939 law on the protection of property art and culture, unfortunately, remained for decades in the drawer of the bureaucrats) have taken Vodret Ross, Superintendent of the Museum Centre of Rome, Italy Salvatore, Head of the Department of Archives and Library of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, scholars of 'Glidewell art Peter and Claire Barbato, and, as rapporteur, Donata Levi, Professor of History dell' Arte at the University of Udine.
"This collection of essays edited by Masi - Italy Salvatore said - is of great interest to the published documents: for example, the memory receive in August 1862, the then Minister of Education, Matteucci, from a art historian Giovan Battista Cavalcaselle as relevant today with comments on the need for a profound reordering of the entire administration and Academies of Fine Arts, to prevent degradation of the beautiful country in Far West-art, international route from unscrupulous traffickers. It is also significant that many of the historians mentioned in the book - from the same Cavalcaselle Peter Toesca, Giovanni Previtali the "contrarian" Federico Zeri - were also officials of the Fine Arts. "Otherwise, unfortunately, that nowadays," said Peter Glidewell "when (with the exception of Claudio Strinati, predecessor Vodret Ross at the helm of the Museums of Rome, recently named to the top of the ministry, Ed), the Ministry of Heritage and Culture is no longer only a Director General who is an art historian. "
"In treating this collection of essays - said Alessandro Masi - I started from the comments of a scholar like Antonio Paolucci, former Superintendent of the Special State Museums of Florence, on the death of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1770) as also the end of the first Italian arts and art criticism itself, partly by putting them into question. And I gave special emphasis to what many art historians have done for the protection of our heritage and the development of restoration, instead of so many bad restorations' renewal 'made in' 800 ".
(Bri)
Centered on the theme "The eye of the critic" ("History and Art History"), the lecture series 2010 s' opened with the presentation of the homonymous book, a collection of essays on the great Italian art historians nineteenth and twentieth centuries by various authors, edited by Alessandro Masi, an art historian and secretary general of the "Dante" (Florence, Vallecchi, 2009). After the greetings of the President of the "Dante", Ambassador Bruno Bottai (and son of the minister of fascist 'National Education was responsible for the historic 1939 law on the protection of property art and culture, unfortunately, remained for decades in the drawer of the bureaucrats) have taken Vodret Ross, Superintendent of the Museum Centre of Rome, Italy Salvatore, Head of the Department of Archives and Library of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, scholars of 'Glidewell art Peter and Claire Barbato, and, as rapporteur, Donata Levi, Professor of History dell' Arte at the University of Udine.
"This collection of essays edited by Masi - Italy Salvatore said - is of great interest to the published documents: for example, the memory receive in August 1862, the then Minister of Education, Matteucci, from a art historian Giovan Battista Cavalcaselle as relevant today with comments on the need for a profound reordering of the entire administration and Academies of Fine Arts, to prevent degradation of the beautiful country in Far West-art, international route from unscrupulous traffickers. It is also significant that many of the historians mentioned in the book - from the same Cavalcaselle Peter Toesca, Giovanni Previtali the "contrarian" Federico Zeri - were also officials of the Fine Arts. "Otherwise, unfortunately, that nowadays," said Peter Glidewell "when (with the exception of Claudio Strinati, predecessor Vodret Ross at the helm of the Museums of Rome, recently named to the top of the ministry, Ed), the Ministry of Heritage and Culture is no longer only a Director General who is an art historian. "
"In treating this collection of essays - said Alessandro Masi - I started from the comments of a scholar like Antonio Paolucci, former Superintendent of the Special State Museums of Florence, on the death of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1770) as also the end of the first Italian arts and art criticism itself, partly by putting them into question. And I gave special emphasis to what many art historians have done for the protection of our heritage and the development of restoration, instead of so many bad restorations' renewal 'made in' 800 ".
(Bri)
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