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The Great Gualino

Captain of industry, financier and fabulous art collector, Riccardo Gualino was the shining star of Italian history and economy in the 20th century. This volume tells the story of the long, adventurous life (1879-1964) of a man of extraordinary energy, who directed it towards countless passions, activities and initiative.

La pittura tardogotica di padre in figlio
Daniele de Bosis, originario di Milano ma cittadino di Novara, fu il caposcuola della bottega dei suoi figli, Arcangelo e Francesco. Attivi fra la fine del XV e l’inizio del XVI secolo, i de Bosis furono artisti semplici, interpreti sensibili della cultura figurativa tardogotica.

Il Doré italiano
«...Solo la fecondità di Gustave Doré potrebbe essere comparata a quella del disegnatore italiano, ma il talento dell’artista francese non è drammatico quanto quello dell’italiano. Questa illustrazione di Dante sarà un autentico monumento.»

The conceptual exercise of painting

Tino Stefanoni's inventory of his works of art from 1965 to 2016, which he completed himself very scrupulously just before his recent death, is the record of a coherent and rigorous oeuvre that is sure to be highly esteemed.

Cycles of painting reflections of an artist “It seems that among the historic avant-garde movements, and even before them, the various cycles of a work were often developments on each other. A sort of progression exemplified perfectly by Mondrian’s tree. In my case, there is nothing...

The complete works of a “20th-century Caravaggio”

A very prolific painter in an artistic life that unfolds from the Abstract art of Kupka and Kandinsky to American Action Painting, from Spatialism to lyrical and surreal abstraction, Tancredi (Tancredi Parmeggiani) was the dramatic interpreter of the convulsive decades from the Forties to the Sixties, when painting forcefully reclaimed its own role...

The “bible” by the greatest creator of gardens of the 20th century

The essential work in the world literature dedicated to gardens. The sensitivity and inspiration of the greatest architect of nature of our times make this book an enchanting read and not merely a manual.

The extraordinary success of Fontana ArteOver a period of thirty years, Fontana Arte became the most widely admired company specialising in the use of glass for lighting and furniture, characterised by a modern concept and perfect workmanship. The architects who were its art directors were Gio Ponti,...

Imperial porphyry, the greatest symbol of religious power

This volume presents the largest number of artefacts ever assembled and traces, by the stages which two symbols in widely different materials became intimately linked: purple dye, which is transfigured from the living body of rock snails into a colour and porphyry, whose inanimate objectivity as a rare stone is converted into the immortal essence of the figure it is called to embody