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Item Number: 147880
Title: Masterpieces. Based on a manuscript by Mario Modestini
Author: Modestini, Dianne Dwyer
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788879234504
Description: Fiesole: Cadmo, 2018. 23cm., hardcover, 524pp. illus. Contents: Chapter 1: Early Years - The Spanish Flu - The Rome of Mario's Childhood The Rise of Fascism - Via Margutta. Chapter 2: From Art Student to Art Restorer - Art School - Political Changes and Becoming a Restorer - The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna - Fascism and the Arts. Chapter 3: The Rospigliosi Collection - The Rospigliosi Sales (1931 and 1932). Chapter 4: Caveat Emptor - Icilio Federico Joni - Giuseppe Latini - Teodoro Riccardi - Elena Gobbi's - The Getty Kouros and Armando Pacifici - An Accidental Forgery - Giosi, Pulvirenti and the Musketeer - Pietro Toesca, Forgeries, and Expertises. Chapter 5: The Istituto Centrale per il Restauro - Cesare Brandi and Mauro Pellicioli - A Brief History of Italian Restoration - Chapter 6: War: Rome, Open City - Via del Babuino - The Bombing of Rome - The German Occupation - The Roman Jews - A Narrow Escape. Chapter 7: After the War: Transitions - Pietro Maria Bardi and the Studio d'Arte Palma - Palma Bucarelli - Riccardo Gualino - London, 1945 - Cesare Zavattini - Ischia. Chapter 8: The Florentine Connection - Gualtiero Volterra - Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi - Sandrino Contini Bonacossi - Roberto Longhi - Bernard Berenson. Chapter 9: Barone Michele Lazzaroni - Giuliano de' Medici. Chapter 10: Assis Chateaubriand and São Paulo - São Paulo - Acquisitions for Brazil. Chapter 11: Welcome to America - Samuel Henry Kress - The Restorer and the Count - Samuel Kress's Decline and Pichetto's Sudden Death. Chapter 12: Carnegie Hall and Huckleberry Hill (1952-1961) - Renzo Ravà - Carnegie Hall - Huckleberry Hill. Chapter 13: New York, New York - Federico Zeri - The Fire in the Studio. Chapter 14: Samuel Kress and the National Gallery of Art - Andrew Mellon: The Philanthropist - David Finley: The Director - John Walker: The Curator. Chapter 15: The Regional Gallery Program - The Philadelphia Gift and Alfred Frankfurter Masterworks for the Regional Galleries - Framing the Kress Collection - The Scientist and the Restorer. Chapter 16: The Art of Acquisition - The Early Fifties - Count Vittorio Cini - French & Company - Carpe diem: Grünewald and Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon in His Study - Serendipity and Chance: Marchesa Doria Spinola, Doge Andrea Gritti. Chapter 17: The Last Picture Sale - Sandrino's Disappearance - The Death of Sandrino. Chapter 18: Missed Opportunities - The Ruspoli Goyas - Goya's Painting Technique - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Saint John the Baptist - The Barberini Tapestries and Bernini. Chapter 19: Endings - The National Gallery Opening and the End of Kress's Original Mission. Chapter 20: New Clients and Friends - Mario's Studio - William Suhr - Rudolf Heinemann and Baron Heinrich von Thyssen - Geoffrey Agnew - Eugene V. Thaw and Giovanni di Paolo - Julius Weitzner and Canaletto - Harold Wethey - John Brealey and the Metropolitan Museum - Mario's Revenge. Chapter 21: Notable Restorations - Giorgione - El Greco's Antonello da Messina - The Kress Ghirlandaio - Rubens's Self-Portrait. Chapter 22: A Few More Forgeries. Chapter 23: Misattributions, Studio Replicas, and Repainted Originals - Unrecognized Originals: A Claude Lorrain and Others - Optimistic Attributions: Raphael's - Primary Versions and Studio Replicas: Lorenzo Lotto - Repainted Originals: A Lazzaroni Botticelli - Norton Simon's Botticelli - Reflections on the Art of Restoration - Retouching Controversies: Alfio Del Serra. Chapter 24: Cleaning and Controversies - The National Gallery of Art - The Sistine Chapel. Chapter 25: Please Do Not Varnish This Painting - "Crimes Against the Cubists" - Van Gogh's Irises - Au Lapin Agile. Chapter 26: Retirement - Troghi - "Senza Fine" - New York. Epilogue: The Salvator Mundi. Appendices - Appendix 1: Technical Matters and Essential Principles - Tempera Painting - Oil Painting. Appendix 2: Restoration Practices - Varnishes - Cradling - Transfer - Additional Notes on Cleaning.
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