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Item Number: 115595
Title: Works of Art from the Collections of Ascoli PIceno : the Pinacoteca Civica and the Museo Diocesano : discoveries, research and new attributions. Opere d'arte dalle Collezioni di Ascoli Piceno : la Pinacoteca Civica e il Museo Diocesano : scoperte, ricerche e nuove proposte
Author: Papetti, Stefano (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788870030501
Description: Roma: Ugo Bozzi, 2012. 28cm., pbk., 398pp. illus., most in color. Italian-English text. Summary: The objective of this book is to bring to the attention of scholars and art enthusiasts the results of an intensive season of archival research and art historical evaluation conducted over the course of the last decade at the two major museums of Ascoli Piceno. The Pinacoteca Civica, that claims a long history begun at the closing of the Eighteenth Century, and the Museo Diocesiano, that occupy adjoining historic buildings overlooking the Piazza Arringo. Under the auspices of major experts in the field, one hundred and fifty works of art preserved in the two institutions have been the subject of careful philological analysis, supported by new archival research and diagnostic investigations effected during recent restorations that have shed new light on an extraordinary artistic inheritance that is only partially known. Spanning from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, across multiple media, and boasting a specially conducted photographic campaign, this volume aims to up-date knowledge concerning certain admirable works preserved in Ascoli's two museums. Its ambition is also to re-connect the threads of a complex fabric of human relationships that permitted the arrival at this regional capital, of eminent foreign artists or works commissioned in the major artistic centres of the past. From the refined materials of Pope Nicolas IV's pluvial cape, the precious painted images of Carlo Crivelli, the virtuosities of the goldsmith Pietro Vannini, the emotive scene of Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata painted by the elderly Titian, the elegant Annunciation by Guido Reni, the theatrical compositions of Baccicio, Luca Giordano and Sebastiano Conca, finally reaching to the romantic idyll by Pellizza da Volpedo, the high points are represented of an artistic progress that is structured around a connecting text of consistently high quality, in harmony with the most up to date dynamics of Italian art. There emerges the image of an elect region that through art has known how to vindicate its marginal location, and which entrusts its future to the validation of its artistic patrimony. The volume concludes with a final section in which reflectograms of certain works by Carlo Crivelli and Pietro Alamanno are compared. The infra-red reflectogram is an un-intrusive optical technique used to reveal the preparatory drawings of paintings. By its extraordinary means we are able to read and understand the role of the under-drawing in the artist's creative process. Furthermore the opportunity to examine a painting beneath its painted surface allows access to a range of entirely new data that is characterised by the individual history of the work under examination. This previously uncertain information can be determining for our greater understanding of the work. Having decided to put its instruments and expertise at the disposal of art, the University of Camerino is contributing to the investigation of a new dimension of our artistic patrimony: that which is invisible. Thanks to this union between the humanities and the sciences a great opportunity has arisen for art admirers to discover secrets that had otherwise been considered lost or inaccessible.

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