Dipingere il sogno. Il miracolo dell’arte italiana da Cimabue a Caravaggio
by Forcellino, Antonio
Dipingere il sogno (Painting the dream) is a passionate and enlightening book that explains modern art as never done before. There are amazing moments, during which in limited time and space, many artistically and culturally gifted people follow each other and cooperate, and it looks like a miracle. That is the case of Greek tragical and lyrical poets in the V century B.C., or of German philosophers in Eighteenth and Nineteenth century. And, of course, this is what happened to Italian painters during the Renaissance. In just two centuries, there was a bloom of talent never seen before, able to transform painting, and to create a new vision of the world that till now keep raising wonder, bliss and marvel.
Antonio Forcellino, one of the greatest Italian restorer and art historian, worked first-hand on many of these masterpieces, giving them back to the original splendour, dialoguing with them
through accurate research and a very deep passion. Passion and research allowed him to tell like no other this miraculous story, weaving bonds and influences among generations of artists that seem to belong to the same extraordinary family. For the first time images’ history becomes a story of sentimental relations among the protagonists of the Italian artistic scene of Renaissance. The story begins with Cimabue and stops at Caravaggio, the scandalous and brilliant innovator of vision, going through the marvellous frescos of Giotto in Assisi, the vital power of Masaccio and the sublime geometries of Piero della Francesca, all merging into the great and terrific painting of Michelangelo.
- Publishing house HarperCollins Italia
- Year of publication 2024
- Number of pages 288
- ISBN 9791259853837
- Foreign Rights Aurora, Peccarisi, aurora.peccarisi@harpercollins.it
- Price 20.00
Forcellino, Antonio
Antonio Forcellino is one of Europe’s leading scholars of Renaissance art. He has carried out restorations of such valuable works as Michelangelo’s Moses and Trajan’s Arch. He has written Il secolo dei giganti: Il colosso di marmo (Harper Collins 2019).
