PROGRAMME >> EVENT #14  

saturday aug. 30.time 14.45.sala delle capriate Fortezza Firmafede - 4,00
Giovanni Agosti - The history of art frees your mind

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How do you organize an exhibition in Europe today, trying to reconcile poetic tension and documentary precision, doing your best to cope with loans, payments, safety and morality? On the fringe of the exhibition industry, Agosti introduces the Andrea Mantegna exhibition he is working on with Dominique Thiébaut, staged by Richard Peduzzi, which will open at the end of September at the Louvre. A group of Italian and foreign scholars plans an epoch-making reconstruction: from the roaring Padua of mid-fourteenth century up to the threshold of the “maniera moderna”. And Mantegna communicates with Donatello, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo, as Italy changes (but remains essentially ruthless and moderate).

Giovanni Agosti
Giovanni Agosti was born in Milan in 1961; he started teaching History of Modern Art at Milan State University in 2000, after working for many years for the Soprintendenze per i Beni artistici e storici of Mantua and Florence. His studies focus mainly on the classical tradition in Italian figurative art, the relationship between artists and writers and the Renaissance in Northern Italy. He has written: Bambaia e il classicismo lombardo (Einaudi, 1990); La testoriana di Brescia  (l’Obliquo, 1997); Disegni del Rinascimento in Valpadana (Olschki , 2001); Su Mantegna I (Feltrinelli, 2005), which won the Premio Viareggio Repaci 2006; Mantegna 1961 Mantova (Arcari Editore, 2006). He writes for leading history of art journals.