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Item Number: 132629
Title: Da Guercino a Caravaggio : Sir Denis Mahon e l'Arte Italiana del XVII secolo. Sir Denis Mahon and Italian Art in seventeenth century
Author: Coliva, Anna ; Mina Gregori ; Sergey Androsov
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ISBN: 9788891306364
Description: Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2014. 31cm., pbk., 180pp., 50 color illus. Italian-English text. Exhibition held at Palazzo Barberini, Roma.

Summary: Sir Denis Mahon' s studies on 17th-century Italian art are an unquestionable asset for international scholarship. Four years from his passing, the nature and development of Mahon' s long work survive as memories that Italy is called to acknowledge and cherish as a prized possession. From the 1930s onwards - with only a short break during the war - Mahon constantly visited cities, museums, art exhibitions, scholars, collectors and antique dealers in Italy. Few foreign art historians have followed the events related to Italian art history as closely as Mahon - from the point of view both of ongoing research and management of the country' s cultural heritage, including restorations. The passing years in no way weakened his interest or ability to acquire information, explore matters and benefit others through his advice. Behind all this lies Mahon' s remarkable commitment to his profession as an art historian. This aspect, however, is part of Italy' s heritage and the present exhibition is designed to celebrate it. Indeed, the exhibition springs from Mahon' s own plans. In the last years of his life, Mahon had been planning an exhibition to present some of the exemplary cases that had marked his career as a scholar. What has now taken the form of a respectful and heartfelt tribute was originally conceived as a further assessment, which would extend the method that Mahon had followed as a beacon throughout his life: the viewing and comparing of paintings

Contents: Sir Denis Mahon (1910-2011) ; Sir Denis Mahon (1910-2011) (Nicolas Penny) ; Sir Denis Mahon storico dell'arte e collezionista (David Ekserdjian) ; Sir Denis Mahon' s Bequest to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (Tim Knox) ; L' umorismo lieto e l' elegante noncuranza di Sir Denis Mahon: gli studi sul Guercino - Sir Denis Mahon' s blithe sense of humour and elegant nonchalance: studies on Guercino(Luigi Ficacci) ; Presenza di Longhi e Mahon negli studi caravaggeschi degli anni cinquanta del Novecento - Presence of Longhi and Mahon in the Caravaggio studies of the 1950s (Mina Gregori) ; ; Caravaggio, Scipione Borghese e il mancato ritorno a Roma - Caravaggio, Scipione Borghese and the Failure to Return to Rome (Anna Coliva) ; Come dipingeva il Caravaggio - How Caravaggio painted (Mina Gregori) ; Caravaggio e i suoi contemporanei negli scritti degli storici dell' arte russi del Novecento - Caravaggio and his contemporaries in the writings of 20th-century Russian art historians (Sergey Androsov) ; Catalogo / Catalogue.

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