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Le Corbusier and Sardinian-born sculptor Costatino Nivola met in
1946 in New York. The Franco-Swiss architect had been living there
in exile since 1939 and was working with a team around Oscar
Niemeyer on the project for the United Nations headquarters. Their
meeting marked the beginning of a life-long friendship between the
two, with Le Corbusier sharing Nivola's Greenwich Village studio
while working on the United Nations project and, in 1950, creating
two murals in the kitchen of Nivola s East Hampton home. The artist
put together a collection of some 300 drawings, six paintings, and
six sculptures by his architect friend which today are held in
various places across Europe and America. This book tells the story
of the collection and explores its significance, thus contributing
to the understanding of the evolution of Le Corbusier's visual art
and its impact on the reception of his work in America. Text in
Italian.
This book is under the impression that the general cultivation of
practical taste, and an acquaintance with the principles of the
Fine Arts, are not only desirable in the light of acquirement, but
must eventually prove highly beneficial to the useful arts of the
country.
This book, the first comprehensive interdisciplinary account of
Michelangelo's work as a sculptor in bronze, is the outcome of
extensive original research undertaken over several years by
academics at the University of Cambridge together with a team of
international experts, directed by Dr Victoria Avery, a leading
authority on the history, art and technology of bronze casting in
Renaissance Italy. The catalyst for this innovative project was the
attribution to Michelangelo of the Rothschild bronzes - two
extraordinary bronze groups of nude men on fantastical panthers -
prior to their display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2015. First
proposed by the distinguished Michelangelo scholar Professor Paul
Joannides and validated by the wide-ranging research published
here, the attribution to Michelangelo has now gained widespread
acceptance. As part of this pioneering project, Professor Peter
Abrahams, the eminent clinical anatomist specialising in
dissection, has carried out the first ever in-depth scientific
analysis of the anatomy of Michelangelo's nude figures. Abrahams'
findings have uncovered hitherto unrecognised features of
Michelangelo's unparalleled mastery of the structure and workings
of the human body that give the gesture and the motion of his
figures their unique expressive force. Enigmatic and
visually-striking masterpieces, the Rothschild bronzes are the
focus of this multi-authored, interdisciplinary volume that
contains ground-breaking contributions by leading experts in the
fields of art history, anatomy, conservation science, bronze
casting and the history of collecting.
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