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An ideal journey through the history and art history of Venice by Carlo Bertelli
Intermezzi veneziani is an ideal journey through the history and art history of Venice by Carlo Bertelli. The writer has republished and written a series of persuasive and enjoyable essays that are critically very thorough; they take the reader into the complex network of relations that throughout the centuries connected Venice, and Venetian culture, with Italy and the Mediterranean, with highlights including: the gold-bottomed glass discovered in the tomb of Pope Clement IV in Viterbo; the vision of the city of Cairo by Gentile Bellini which today is in the Brera Gallery in Milan; the painters Leonardo, Titian, Lorenzo Lotto and Antonio and Tullio Lombardo; the Siena of Vecchietta; and the Constantinople of Mahomet II. Rediscoveries, philological enquiries, anecdotes and journeys are all eruditely mixed with Carlo Bertelli’s rich and elegant writing, giving us a rare picture of events in the world of art from the Late Middle Ages to the High Renaissance. Carlo Bertelli was born in Rome in 1930. He began his career in heritage administration at the Central Institute for Restoration; he then became Superintendent of Milan and Director of the Brera Gallery. Following this he was appointed to a tenured position as professor of Art History (Medieval and Renaissance) at the University of Lausanne, where he is currently professeur honoraire. He has taught at the following universities: Berkeley, Berlin, Geneva, Venice and at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Ticino (Swiss-Italian University) where he is currently professor emeritus. His interests span from late Antiquity and high Middle Ages (La pittura in Italia. L'alto Medioevo, Milan 1995) to the Renaissance (Piero della Francesca, Milan 1991, London 1992, Cologne 1993).
The volume is available at the bookstore in via Torino 61, Milan and from Nov 9 2005 in all Italian bookshops.
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