Matteo Marangoni

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Matteo Marangoni

Matteo Marangoni (born July 12, 1876 in Florence , † June 1, 1958 in Pisa ) was an Italian art historian , art critic and composer .

biography

As the son of Maria Augusta Malvisi and Carlo Marangoni, a physics teacher, he graduated from high school in 1896, but did not continue his studies immediately. With his passion for music , he moved to London , where he performed as a pianist and composed short pieces of music for voice and piano : Barcarola 1897, Serenata 1900, Le pastorelle montanine di Franco Sacchetti 1901, Tre canti di Giacomo Leopardi e Gavotta 1902.

Back in Florence, he enrolled in the Faculty of Science and graduated in anthropology in 1905 . He moved to Paris and then to London , also traveled to Germany and developed a great interest in figurative art, so that after his return to Italy in 1909 he attended a course on art history in Bologna . In 1910 he married Drusilla Tanzi (with whom he had a son, Andrea) and worked as a volunteer in the Soprintendenza of Florence, where he became inspector in 1913 and later director. From 1916 to 1925 he taught art history at the Collegio della SS. Annunziata in Poggio Imperiale . For a short time in 1920 he also headed the Pinacoteca di Brera and in 1924 the Galleria Nazionale di Parma .

During this time he was particularly interested in the painting of the 17th century, about which he published numerous articles in the magazines "L'Arte", "Bollettino d'arte", "Dedalo", "Rassegna d'arte", "Rivista." d'arte ”and“ Vita d'Arte ”published. In 1925 he taught art history at the University of Palermo and the following year he worked as a freelance lecturer at the University of Pisa . In 1927 he published the books Arte barocca and Come si guarda un quadro , followed in 1933 by Saper vedere , the latter very successful, which appeared in numerous editions and translations.

From 1938 he taught art history at the University of Milan and returned to the University of Pisa from 1946 until his retirement in 1951. He published Capire la musica in 1953 and lived for the last few years until his death in Pisa where he wrote his last work, a monograph on Guercino , which was published in 1959.

Marangoni's critique of Crocian culture aimed at the disadvantage of purely figurative values, in which the poetic values ​​of the work of art are identified. His books are positively influenced by the school of Benedetto Croce and Heinrich Wölfflin , who arrive at the clarification of concepts based on observation and a logic as the science of the pure concept. Many critics of modern and contemporary art have used Marangoni's works for teaching and in their studies.

Works

  • Il Guercino , Florence, Fratelli Alinari, 1920
  • Il Caravaggio , Florence, Battistelli, 1922
  • La Basilica di S. Lorenzo in Firenze , Florence, Battistelli, 1922
  • La Villa del Poggio Imperiale , Florence, Fratelli Alinari, 1923
  • I Carloni , Florence, Fratelli Alinari, 1925
  • La Galleria Pitti , Milan, Treves, 1926
  • Arte barocca , Florence, Vallecchi, 1927
  • Come si guarda un quadro , Florence, Vallecchi, 1927
  • Saper vedere , Milan-Roma, Treves, Treccani, Tumminelli, 1933
  • Capire la musica , Milan, Garzanti, 1953
  • Guercino , Milan, Aldo Martello, 1959
  • Carteggi (1909–1958 ), Ed .: Luca Barreca, Palermo, Editrice Mediterranea, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Marangoni, Matteo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian university professor and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1958
Place of death Pisa