Download or read book Kermes 94 95 written by and published by Claudio Aita. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numero doppio, 160 pagine, cm21x29,7, brossura, illustrato a colori, anno 2015 Questo numero speciale di Kermes, nell’ambito delle celebrazioni per il 350° anniversario della morte di Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), esce in concomitanza con la mostra ‘Poussin et Dieu’ che il Musée du Louvre presenta nella primavera del 2015. Omaggio al ‘pittore-filosofo’, il volume si pone quale strumento scientifico di riferimento che riporta lo stato dell’arte a livello internazionale negli studi tecnici poussiniani e accompagna la mostra come adeguato complemento al catalogo per la comprensione scientifica delle tematiche. La pubblicazione è stata l’occasione per attivare un dibattito internazionale – quasi un convegno ideale con sede in Kermes – a cui hanno aderito con entusiasmo oltre venti autori, proponendo significativi ed estesi studi in una dimostrazione esemplare d’interazione fra ricerche storico artistiche e tecnico-scientifiche. … It is with great enthusiasm that Kermes supported this initiative hosting the studies, as though these were part of a conference, ‘ideal’ in that it never took place physically, but very much real in terms of the international plurality of its contributions, presented here thanks to lively exchange of information across frontiers … This publication is the fruit of a perfect and exemplary collaboration between curators, conservators and scientists brought together from all countries… The publication here before us provides a number of answers – let us be brave and use the word ‘definitive’ – to questions which have long been an issue of debate … Comme l’affirme ici même Sheila McTighe, toute vision plus large de la pratique de Poussin doit dorénavant prendre en compte et intégrer ces nouvelles données techniques. (Pierre Rosenberg de l’Académie française, Président-directeur honoraire du Musée du Louvre) This volume of the journal Kermes devoted to the meticulous technical analysis of several works by Nicolas Poussin, reveals the wealth of knowledge acquired through the implementation of new methods of physico-chemical analysis taken together with the detailed investigation of the handling and materials deployed during the process of creating the work of art. A number of different means have been employed in order to investigate in the greatest detail the nature of a particular pigment, its impurities, the effects of the addition of a medium as well as the effects created by mixtures … (Philippe Walter, Directeur du Laboratoire d’archéologie moléculaire et structurale, CNRS-UMR 8820, Université Pierre et Marie Curie) indice/Index: speciale – NICOLAS POUSSIN. TECHNIQUE, PRACTICE, CONSERVATION a cura di Helen Glanville, Claudio Seccaroni Helen Glanville, Claudio Seccaroni Nota introduttiva dei curatori / Editors’ Introductory Note Pierre Rosenberg Du progrès en histoire de l’art / On Developments in the History of Art Philippe Walter Combiner les regards sur les œuvres de Nicolas Poussin / A Combined Vision of the Works of Nicolas Poussin Sheila McTighe Poussin’s Practice: A New Plea for Poussin as a Painter Helen Glanville Nicolas Poussin: Creation and Perception Paolo Bensi Supporti e preparazioni: aspetti delle scelte esecutive di Poussin a confronto con le tecniche pittoriche dell’ambiente romano (1620-70) Chiara Merucci, Claudio Seccaroni Qualche osservazione sui Baccanali di putti della Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini Marcia Steele Transmitted Light Infrared Imaging of Two Paintings by Poussin at the Cleveland Museum of Art David Piurek The Cleveland Museum of Art Painting Conservation. Transmitted IR Photography Setup Sophia Plender, Aviva Burnstock Technical Examination and Conservation of The Triumph of David by Nicolas Poussin Laurie Benson, Carl Villis The Crossing of the Red Sea in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne John Twilley, Nicole Myers, Mary Schafer Poussin’s Materials and Techniques for The Triumph of Bacchus at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Jean Cadogan, Stephen Kornhauser, Patricia Sherwin Garland The Crucifixion by Nicolas Poussin in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Rikke Foulke The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth Laurence de Viguerie, Philippe Walter, Helen Glanville Some Preliminary Remarks on Nicolas Poussin’s Painting Technique in L’Orage: Complementary X-ray Fluorescence and X-ray Diffraction Study Carol Woods Sawyer Discoveries Concerning Poussin’s Technique Made during the Examination and Treatment of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes Characteristics of the Canvases Used by Nicolas Poussin Bibliographic References Abstracts CULTURA PER I BENI CULTURALI CSRP-The Central Scientific Restoration Project Workshop – Moscow: I metodi di restauro dei monumenti architettonici di legno in russia ARI: Il tesoro sottratto di Roma SUPSI: Studio comparativo di metodi diagnostici per la valutazione dei distacchi degli intonaci e del loro trattamento AICRAB: “Digital Humanities” alla Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli OPD: Avanzamenti circa il restauro dell’ Adorazione dei Magi di Leonardo da Vinci MNEMOSYNE: Riprendere le proposte di Giovani Urbani per la cura dei contesti ambientali e condizione per la duratura conservazione anche delle singole opere d’arte CCR La Venaria Reale: Campagna di documentazione dello stato di conservazione dell’opera La Bella Principessa attribuita a Leonardo da Vinci Taccuino IG-IIC: Sostenibilità della conservazione, ma oltre le mode … LA RECENSIONE Licia Vlad Borrelli, La fucina di Vulcano. I metalli nel mondo antico: storia, tecnologia, conservazione Giorgio Bonsanti Giuseppina Perusini, Simon Horsin-Déon e il restauro in Francia alla metà del XIX secolo Paolo Bensi Christoph Schölzel, Gemäldegalerie Dresden: Bewahrung und Restaurierung der Kunstwerke von den Anfängen der Galerie bis 1876 Giorgio Bonsanti Antonio Sgamellotti, Brunetto G. Brunetti and Costanza Miliani (edited by), Science and Art. The Painted Surface Giorgio Bonsanti Elena Pecchioni, Fabio Fratini, Emma Cantisani, Atlante delle malte antiche in sezione sottile al microscopio ottico / Atlas of the ancient mortars in thin section under optical microscope Deodato Tapete Maria Beatrice Failla, Susanne Adina Meyer, Chiara Piva, Stefania Ventra (a cura di), La cultura del restauro. Modelli di ricezione per la museologia e la storia dell’arte Giorgio Bonsanti

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Download or read book Raffaello Borghini s Il Riposo written by Raffaello Borghini and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation of the art gossip that was a feature of the Medici Grand Ducal court, Borghini's treatise puts forth simple criteria for judging the quality of a work of art. Published sixteen years after the second edition of Giorgio Vasari's Vite, the text that set the standard for art-historical writing during the period, Il Riposo focuses on important issues that Vasari avoided, ignored, or was oblivious to. Picking up where Vasari left off, Borghini deals with artists who came after Michaelangelo and provides more comprehensive descriptions of artists who Vasari only touched upon such as Tintoretto, Veronese, Barocci, and the artists of Francesco I's Studiolo. This text is also invaluable as a description of the mid-sixteenth century reaction against the style of the 'maniera,' which stressed the representation of self-consciously convoluted figures in complicated works of art. The first art treatise specifically directed toward non-practitioners, Il Riposo gives unique insight into the early stages of art history as a discipline, late Renaissance art and theory, and the Counter-Reformation in Italy.

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