This study offers an analysis of the critical reception and exhibition history of Courbet in Italy between 1920 and 1954, the year of the second retrospective dedicated to him at the Venice Biennale. Starting with detailed documentary research, the author also discusses some of the fortunes of Courbet’s paintings, supported by published and unpublished sources, or through iconographical hypotheses. The artists involved here include Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Socrate, Giorgio Morandi and Felice Carena. While Roberto Longhi continues to be central to the Italian reassessment of Courbet, in part conditioning how his work was received, the publication of texts in Germany and France contributed to the spread of images and the consequent revival of certain subjects.
Courbet in Italia. Una storia novecentesca II / Giuseppe Di Natale. - In: PARAGONE. ARTE. - ISSN 1120-4737. - STAMPA. - LXIX:(2018), pp. 19-47.
Courbet in Italia. Una storia novecentesca II
Giuseppe Di Natale
2018
Abstract
This study offers an analysis of the critical reception and exhibition history of Courbet in Italy between 1920 and 1954, the year of the second retrospective dedicated to him at the Venice Biennale. Starting with detailed documentary research, the author also discusses some of the fortunes of Courbet’s paintings, supported by published and unpublished sources, or through iconographical hypotheses. The artists involved here include Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Socrate, Giorgio Morandi and Felice Carena. While Roberto Longhi continues to be central to the Italian reassessment of Courbet, in part conditioning how his work was received, the publication of texts in Germany and France contributed to the spread of images and the consequent revival of certain subjects.
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