Il piacere di scegliere

Robert Mapplethorpe

The sensitive lens

The classical (but disruptive) aesthetics of a great photographerIn 1883, Prince Tommaso Corsini sold the palace to the Italian State, at the same time donating all the furniture, the library, the art gallery and the collection of prints. The history of the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini starts...

Edited by: Flaminia Gennari Santori
2019, Paperback, 120 pp., 90 ill.
ISBN: 9788842225041
€ 15,00 € 14,25

Precious Portraits

Tiny Sculpture masterpieces of Imperial Rome, The Reinaissance Taste and the Antique

The cameo portraits of Imperial Rome

It could perhaps be said that the most elegant and precious sculptural art is that of miniature stone carvings.

Author: Dario Del Bufalo
2020, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 400 pp., 650 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224273
€ 60,00 € 57,00

Bernardino Luini

Complete Works

One of the greatest Milanese painters, often mistaken for Da Vinci

Bernardino Luini (Dumenza? c. 1482 - Milan 1532) was one of the foremost painters working in Milan between the second and third decades of the 16th century. He was a contemporary of Zenale and Bramantino, who were his main stylistic influences, and of Andrea Solario and Giovanni Agostino da Lodi.

Author: Cristina Quattrini
2019, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 528 pp., 470 ill.
ISBN: 9788842222958
€ 60,00

Copertina: L'Arte del Movimento in Russia. Prezzo di listino € 150,00. Nuovo prezzo dedicato alla promozione «Il piacere di scegliere» € 60,00

The Russian Art of Movement

1920-1930

The supremacy of dance in the Soviet Union

This beautiful book is the result of research that began in the late 1970s and culminated in the 2011 publication in Moscow of V Natsjale Bilo Telo (In the Beginning was the Body), on the 1920s experiments in movement in the Soviet Union.

Author: Nicoletta Misler
2018, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 448 pp., 523 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224501
€ 60,00

Aldo Borgonzoni

Complete Works

An Italian figurative artist of the second half of the 20th century

Aldo Borgonzoni (Medicina, 12 June 1913 - Bologna, 17 February 2004) was one of the most generous and prolific Italian artists of the second half of the 20th century in terms of both visual expression and literary production, in particular of an autobiographical nature.

Edited by: Archivio Centro Studi Aldo Borgonzoni
2017, Cartonato, 320 pp., 300 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224129
€ 60,00

The lists of Bagutta

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Bagutta's treasure

Since it opened, in 1924, Trattoria Bagutta has been one of the best-loved spots of Milanese artists; a choice influenced by its downtown position, the simple and reasonably priced fare, and the innate bonhomie of its founder, “sor Pepori”, who looked kindly upon that small gathering of penniless, but undoubtedly talented, youths.

Edited by: Elena Pontiggia
2019, Paperback, 128 pp., 85 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224938
€ 25,00 € 23,75

Villa Lontana

A place "ennobled" by the one-time presence of famous people like Poniatowski, Canova and Thorvaldsen

An archaeological collection in the erstwhile home

Villa Lontana enables us to retrace the history of the territory on which it stands, in the vicinity of the Milvian Bridge, through the centuries.

Edited by: Simonetta Ceccarelli
2013, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 248 pp., 192 ill.
ISBN: 9788842222040
€ 15,00 € 14,25

The Russian Art of Movement

1929-1930

The supremacy of dance in the Soviet Union

This beautiful book is the result of research that began in the late 1970s and culminated in the 2011 publication in Moscow of V Natsjale Bilo Telo (In the Beginning was the Body), on the 1920s experiments in movement in the Soviet Union.

Author: Nicoletta Misler
2017, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 448 pp., 523 ill.
ISBN: 9788842223870
€ 60,00 € 57,00

Giorgio Chiarini Boddi

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The surrealism of a Milanese artist

It is well known that freedom comes at a high price, even in art, which is a microcosm that only seems to be open, tolerant, and independent. Chiarini Boddi, albeit completely of his time, instead of adapting to stylistic shortcuts, has always conducted a dialogue with new avant-gardes and trends.

Edited by: Franco Fanelli
2020, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 228 pp., 88 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224945
€ 12,00 € 11,40

Mario Davico

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The artist who was “there and not there” in the post-war history of art

Mario Davico (1920-2010) was a painter whose worth was recognised by the Italian (Art Club exhibitions, sustained presence at the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadriennale, Awards, etc.) and international world of art (exhibitions in France and other European countries, in the US, Japan, Australia) from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s.

Edited by: Pino Mantovani
2019, Paperback, 144 pp., 160 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224914
€ 15,00 € 14,25

Copertina: Le Ceramiche islamiche. Prezzo di listino € 40,00. Nuovo prezzo dedicato alla promozione «Il piacere di scegliere» € 25,00

The Islamic Ceramics

of the Laura Collection

A rare collection of Islamic ceramics

The collection of Islamic ceramics stands out among the more than four thousand decorative art objects on display at Villa San Luca in Ospedaletti (Imperia) and collected by Luigi Anton Laura (1922-2007) and his wife Nera.

Edited by: Manuele Scagliola
2010, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 160 pp., 136 ill.
ISBN: 9788842218432
€ 25,00 € 23,75

Copertina: Atelier a via Margutta. Cinque secoli di cultura internazionale a Roma. Prezzo di listino € 30,00. Nuovo prezzo dedicato alla promozione «Il piacere di scegliere» € 15,00

Ateliers in Via Margutta

Five centuries of international culture in Rome

The most artistic street in the world

Five centuries of history in which the protagonists are artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers, poets, actors, directors, and architects coming from four continents to a single location: Rome, Via Margutta. On this magical street they have created masterpieces, living and working in the ateliers with their large windows.

Edited by: Valentina Moncada di Paternò
2012, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 368 pp., 260 ill.
ISBN: 9788842219460
€ 15,00

The Savoy Residences

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Fifteen greatest royal estates, palaces, castles, villas and charterhouses

One of the characteristics of the history of the Savoy dynasty is the way in which its members entrusted the task of sustaining and celebrating the role and importance of their line to the royal estates and country houses built around the capital.

Edited by: Costanza Roggero, Mario Turetta, Alberto Vanelli
2018, Paperback, 360 pp., 280 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224747
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The fake mirror of reality

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Clair, Canfora, Rosenberg: master thinkers face off on the question of fakes

This volume collects the masterful and memorable interventions of the workshops “The mirror of reality. Fakes and history of art”, organised by the Federico Zeri Foundation in Bologna in 2013.

Edited by: Anna Ottani Cavina, Mauro Natale
2017, Paperback, 228 pp., 182 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224402
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Portrait of King Paintin'

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The Rise and Fall of King Paintin

The astonishing adventures, rise and fall of King Paintin', a visual artist who combines Art with Ethics, at a time when such mix leaves people cold. This all happens behind the scenes of the Italian art system, a microcosm, an aristocratic circle in which one can find all one needs: social status, success, love and money.

Author: Gennaro Castellano
2019, Paperback, 188 pp., 98 ill.
ISBN: 9788842225027
€ 9,00 € 8,55

Copertina: La Stamperia dell'ebanista. Storia di un mobile inedito di Pietro Piffetti. Prezzo di listino € 70,00. Nuovo prezzo dedicato alla promozione «Il piacere di scegliere» € 25,00

The cabinet-maker's print workshop

History of a rediscovered piece of furniture by Pietro Piffetti

The exciting re-apparition of a Piffetti

This unique, inlaid chest of drawers tells the story of a commission by the Piedmontese aristocracy and has recently been added to the list of workds by Pietro Piffetti (1701-1777), the eminent Italian cabinet-maker.

Edited by: Arabella Cifani, Franco Monetti
2017, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 192 pp., 115 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224334
€ 25,00 € 23,75

Piedmontese Furniture in the 18th Century

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A fundamental reference work

This book is the “museum” of Piedmontese furniture from the mid-17th century to the end of the 18th century, the apogee of Italian cabinet-making. More than one thousand colour images enable a close-up view each piece and its details. Baroque, Neo-classical, and 19th-century Piedmontese furniture is highly prized by scholars, museums and collectors.

Author: Roberto Antonetto
2010, Due volumi in cofanetto, 716 pp., 1155 ill.
ISBN: 9788842216261
€ 90,00 € 85,50

Giulio Cesare Procaccini

Life and works with a catalogue of is paintings

The most original Lombard of the 16th century

Giulio Cesare Procaccini (Bologna 1574 - Milan 1625), son and pupil of Ercole Procaccini the Elder, is one of the most original personalities of Lombard painting of his time. Starting out as a sculptor and plasterer, he devoted himself to painting with highly successful results.

Edited by: Hugh Brigstocke, Odette d'Albo
2020, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 504 pp., 375 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224525
€ 90,00 € 85,50

The Golden Age of Italian Maiolica-Painting

Catalogue of a Private Collection

Renaissance majolica: a priceless collectionItalian maiolica is a uniquely vivid and intimate reflection of the world of the Renaissance. This book is the catalogue of the world's most substantial private collection of Renaissance maiolica. Starting with some fine pieces from the fifteenth century,...

Edited by: Timoty Wilson
2019, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 464 pp., 420 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224723
€ 60,00 € 57,00

The programmatic sculptures of the third Reich

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The depravity of Nazi sculpture

In its public buildings, the Nazi party wanted to display both sculpture and architecture with imposing grandiosity.The works of the leading sculptors of the Third Reich...

Author: Klaus Wolbert
2018, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 408 pp., 271 ill.
ISBN: 9788842224624
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Bernardo Strozzi

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The revised definitive work on the great Genoese painter Bernardo Strozzi

Bernardo Strozzi was known as one of the greatest painters of his time, not only in his native city but also, as a fugitive, in Venice, where he became the most widely esteemed artist of the lagoon territory.

Author: Camillo Manzitti
2012, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 324 pp., 597 ill.
ISBN: 9788842221005
€ 60,00

Antonietta Raphaël

Complete Works of Sculpture

A mysterious, fascinating, tough, and uncompromising sculptress

Following Soutine and Chagall, disseminators of the multilingualism typical of Jewish communities before the rise of Nazism, this extraordinary sculptress appeared in Italy...

Author: Giuseppe Appella
2016, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 232 pp., 319 ill.
ISBN: 9788842223672
€ 30,00

Giacinto Brandi

Catalogue Raisonné

The most successful painter of baroque Rome

This is the first complete monographic study of Giacinto Brandi, was born in 1620 in Rome, where he died in 1691. In both his life and his artistic career, Brandi seems to have embodied the image we have of 17th-century Rome, a period both luminous and shadowy, spectacular and contradictory.

Author: Guendalina Serafinelli
2015, Due volumi in cofanetto, 528 pp., 295 ill.
ISBN: 9788842223535
€ 60,00 € 57,00

Donato Creti

Works on paper

Drawings by a master of the Late Baroque in Bologna and Italy

Of the vast body of graphic work by Donato Creti, one of the most talented and successful draughtsmen of 18th-century Europe, and of his drawings (of “such beauty, and perfection”) that were sought after and collected throughout Europe, his first biographer, Giampietro Zanotti, wrote with particular enthusiasm and admiration in History of the Accademia Clementina (Bologna, 1739)

Author: Marco Riccòmini
2012, Cartonato con sovraccoperta, 344 pp., 594 ill.
ISBN: 9788842219804
€ 30,00