Giacomo De Nicola

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Giacomo De Nicola (born February 13, 1879 in Frascati , Rome ; died August 26, 1926 in Florence ) was an Italian art historian who worked in Rome, Siena and Florence.

Life

De Nicola was a son of Luigi De Nicola and his wife Maria (nee Pratalata). He attended a Jesuit boarding school and then began studying literature at the University of Rome, which he completed in 1902. From 1903 to 1905 he received in-depth training from the art historian Adolfo Venturi (1856–1941). In 1905 he co-founded the magazine L'Arte , in which he published numerous articles and reviews until 1916: Among other things, he wrote about Simone Martini and his work in Avignon, published studies on Arnolfo di Cambio and his tomb design, and worked in the Research into medieval Abruzzo art. As an assistant to the curator RL Douglas, he wrote contributions for the 1911 edition of the fourth volume of the work A history of painting in Italy Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century, founded by Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle . In Siena he worked as an art historian from 1909 to 1913 and deepened his studies on Duccio di Buoninsegna and his school, Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Pietro Lorenzetti , Simone Martini, Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta , Lippo Vanni and Vecchietta . He also published articles in magazines such as the Bullettino senese di storia patria in 1911 , in Vita d'arte in 1912 , or in La Rassegna d'arte senese from 1906 to 1922 . From 1907 to 1913, Nicola wrote numerous biographical entries for the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present, for example on Giacomo Cozzarelli .

In 1913 he took over the management of the Museo nazionale del Bargello in Florence and devoted himself to the study of Florentine sculpture of the 15th century until 1924, on which he published numerous articles in magazines such as the Burlington Magazine .

From 1917 he took care of the reorganization of the museums in Florence and carried out a cataloging campaign in 1919. He also worked closely with the art exhibition in Milan. He was promoted to soprintendente of Aquileia in 1924 , but soon returned to Florence to devote himself to his studies.

Works (selection)

  • L'affresco di Simone Martini ad Avignone . In: L'arte. Rivista di storia dell'arte medievale e moderna . tape 9 , 1906, ISSN  0004-3362 , pp. 336-344 , doi : 10.11588 / diglit.24151.47 .
  • Falsificazioni di documenti per la storia dell'arte romana . In: Repertory for Art History . tape 32 , 1909, pp. 55-60 ( books.google.de ).
  • Una copia di Segna di Tura della Maestà di Duccio. In: L'arte. Rivista di storia dell'arte medievale e moderna . tape 15 , 1912, pp. 21-32 , doi : 10.11588 / diglit.24139.10 .
  • Mostra di opere di Duccio di Buoninsegna e della sua scuola . Lazzeri, Siena 1912, OCLC 249912442 .
  • La Giuditta di Donatello e la Madonna Panciatichi di Desiderio . Alfieri & Lacroix, Milan 1917, OCLC 849254016 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph A. Crowe, GB Cavalcaselle (ed.): A history of painting in Italy Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century. tape 4 : Florentine masters of the fifteenth century . Murray, London 1911, OCLC 1072334519 .
personal data
SURNAME De Nicola, Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Frascati
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1926
Place of death Florence