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    Il Libro di disegni della Biblioteca Ambrosiana

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    The realization of the rich drawing collection of the Ambrosiana in Milan goes back to the years of Federico Borromeo, who positively wanted to ensure the institution he had founded with a large number of "book of drawings", the characteristic format such collections were given by the taste of the time. No recollection exists of the original organization of these volumes, on which several drawings were attached. A coherent recognition of documentary sources found both at the Library and at other structures - covering a time-span that goes from the early 17th century to the late 19th century - allowed to retrace the history, as well as most of the original features, of one of the most ancient among such precious books. The collected data seem to bring up the possibility that the former owner - and maybe maker - of the Book was the milanese - though born in Urbino - architect Giovanni Battista Clarici (1542-1602). The drawings included in the Book were taken after works by several artists from the 16th century, perhaps with the intent of representing the most relevant pictorial schools of the Renaissance. Despite that, a truly milanese character stands out, particularly in a striking series of caricatures inspired by the example of Leonardo, alternated with some outstanding original drawings by the Florentine master

    Novità su Agostino Gerli e la sua impresa familiare, protagonista della transizione estetica neoclassica

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    News on Agostino Gerli and his family company. His role as protagonist of the Neoclassical aesthetic transition · The paper shows an unrealeased part of Agostino Gerli’s biography. Gerli was an important and unconventional artist, a decorator, interior designer, and inventor, active in Lombardy between the xviii and xix centuries. The paper analyzes Gerli’s long period of commitment with the marquis Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone and the following one, with his favorite nephew marquis Carlo Camillo Carcano. This study on Gerli’s biography uses critically unpublished documents that offer a vivid portrayal of the commitment of the local and city nobility in a period of great changes of taste in arts

    El dibujo en la formación romana de Vincenzo Camuccini, Giuseppe Bossi y José de Madrazo

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    This paper is based on a cross-sectional study of a set of drawings by Giuseppe Bossi (1777-1815) and Vincenzo Camuccini (1771-1844) that belong to the Madrazo collection of the Prado Museum, which share provenance with those in the Biblioteca Nacional de España, as well as in private and public collections. The comparative analysis and study focus on José de Madrazo y Agudo's (1781-1859) Neoclassical training during his stay in Rome (1803-19).Este artículo está basado en la investigación transversal de un conjunto de dibujos de Giuseppe Bossi (1777-1815) y Vincenzo Camuccini (1771-1844) pertenecientes al Fondo Madrazo del Museo del Prado, que comparten procedencia con los conservados en la Biblioteca Nacional de España, así como en colecciones privadas y públicas. El análisis y el estudio comparativos se centran en la etapa de formación neoclásica de José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781-1859) durante su estancia en Roma (1803-19)
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