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NEW YORK 2012

The Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

Paintings and Sculpture from the Carlo de Carlo Collection and other provenance

 

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:: edited by Gabriele Caioni

:: As Gaudenz Freuler writes: “If this small selection of outstanding works from the Carlo de Carlo collection stands as a modest, yet fitting, homage to the most distinguished Italian art dealer of modern times, the other section of the exhibition embodying a small but worthy group of early Italian paintings and sculptures owned by Moretti Fine Art unequivocally shows that the collecting of early Italian art has retained all of its long-standing fascination and that the enduring beauty of these wonderful and inspiring works, produced centuries ago by the elite of Italian artists, has lost none of its allure for today’s beholder. Thus the trade in early Italian art continues to thrive and, unlike other areas of collecting, this particular field is not susceptible to fast changing fashions.”

 

ISBN: 9788870385014

 

 

NEW YORK 2011

Masterpiece of Italian Renaissance and Baroque sculpture

 

::    :: in collaboration with Andrew Butterfield

 

 

NEW YORK 2011

Agony, Ecstasy, Ivory:The Saint Sebastian of Agenesius, A Rediscovered Masterpiece

 

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 :: in collaboration with Andrew Butterfield

 

LONDON 2010

Quattro 'favole' inedite di Giacinto Gimignani

 

:: edited by Francesca Baldassari in collaboration with Gabriele Caioni

:: Four unpublished paintings by Giacinto Gimignani commissioned by Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi (1600-1699), destined to become pope under the name of Clement IX. Those are among the rarest and most interesting, taken from the Georgics of Virgil, the Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso, from Ovid's Metamorphoses and classical mythology.

ISBN: 978-88-596-0862-2

NEW YORK 2010

Body and Soul

 

:: edited by Andrew Butterfield

 

:: The catalogue presents great masterpieces of Italian renaissance and baroque sculpture. The sculptures which the book deeply analyzes all have something in common: they combine ideality and naturalism of form with intensity and depth of expression, so that both the outer appearance and the inner life of the character represented manage to emerge. In short, not even one of these sculptures submitted to the strict academic rule which have always been influencing art and sometimes keep affecting it today. They were selected since they celebrate life in every single aspect, both physical and spiritual. Among the artists whose works are here described we find Andrea Del Verrocchio, Jacopo Sansovino, Andrea Riccio, Alessandro Algardi, Domenico Pieratti, Giambattista Foggini, Pierre Le Gros, Giuseppe Mazzuoli, Giuseppe Piamontini and Giovachino Fortini.
 

 

FLORENCE 2009

Dalla tradizione gotica al primo Rinascimento

 

:: curated by Gabriele Caioni

 

:: A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by Andrea De Marchi, Gaudenz Freuler, Cristina Guarnieri, Alberto Lenza, Tova R. Ossad, Nicoletta Pons, Angelo Tartuferi

:: Works Included: Maestro del Crocifisso Corsi - Crocifisso dipinto; Maestro di Tobia - Madonna col Bambino in trono fra due angeli e santi; Angelo annunziante e Adorazione dei Magi; Vergine annunziata e Crocifissione; Andrea Bonaiuti - Santo vescovo; San Bartolomeo; Niccolò di Tommaso - Madonna col Bambino in trono fra i santi Antonio Abate e Francesco con quattro angeli; Biagio di Goro Ghezzi - Santa Caterina d’Alessandria; San Lorenzo; Andrea di Deolao de’ Bruni - Madonna col Bambino; Giovanni da Bologna - Martirio di San Paolo; Scolaio di Giovanni –Natività; Roberto di Oderisio - Cristo morto sorretto dalla Madonna tra  San Giovanni e la Maddalena dolenti; Giovanni di Marco, detto Giovanni dal Ponte - Madonna col Bambino in trono incoronata da due angeli e i santi Antonio Abate e Giacomo Maggiore; Maestro di San Jacopo a Mucciana - Sposalizio mistico di Santa Caterina d’Alessandria tra angeli e Santi; Andrea di Giusto - Madonna col Bambino e due angeli; Francesco Botticini - Madonna col Bambino in trono fra santi; Giovanni di Tano Fei, San Giacomo Maggiore e San Giovanni Battista ; Sant’Andrea e Sant’Antonio Abate; Giovanni da Gaeta - Madonna col Bambino e santi; Angelo annunciante; Vergine annunciata e santi; Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio - Annunciazione; Bernardino Fungai - Madonna col Bambino in un paesaggio

 

ISBN: 978-88-596-0657-4
 

 

LONDON 2008

Sherry Levine

 

:: in collaboration with Gian Enzo Sperone

:: curated by Flavio Gianassi in collaboration with Tova Ossad

 

:: The works in bronze presented here, first exhibited at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York in 1989, are part of a single installation entitled The Bachelors, and are a personal representation of one of the most complex and fascinating works in the entire history of Western art: The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors (also known as The Large Glass) by Marcel Duchamp. 

 

FLORENCE 2008

Carole A. Feuerman. La scultura incontra la realtà

 

:: edited by Gabriele Caioni

:: photo by Alessandro Moggi

 

:: Today, she is the reigning doyenne of super-realism. Born in 1945, Carole A. Feuerman was a full generation younger than Duane Hanson and John de Andrea, as is one of the pioneers of figure sculpture that is life-sized and life-like down to the tiniest details. In the early 70’s, while Hanson was exhibiting his supermarket shoppers and other Pop Art satires, Feuerman was drawing album art for Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones (‘Monkey Man’). When she turned to sculpture in 1978, she took super-realism in a new direction: she got personal.

 

ISBN: 978-596-0410-5

 

 

 

LONDRA 2008

Nicola Villa. Walking in the City

 

:: coordinated by Flavio Gianassi  in collaboration with Tova Ossad

:: in association with Montrasio Arte - Milano/Monza/new York

:: catalogue edited by R. Montrasio e F. Moretti

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LONDRA 2008

Enrico Robusti. La fiera delle verità. Reality fair

 

:: coordinated by Flavio Gianassi  in collaboration with Tova Ossad

:: in association with Galleria Chiari - Roma

:: catalogue edited by Alberto Agazzani

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MAASTRICHT @Tefaf 2008

Dal rilievo alla pittura.

La Madonna delle Candelabre di Antonio Rossellino


 

:: edited by Giancarlo Gentilini

The brilliance and beauty of this delicate low relief (rilievo schiacciato) in painted stucco representing the Virgin absorbed in the act of supporting and contemplating her Son, who in turn is wholly intent on play (goldfinch in hand), though pensive in mood, can be derived from a fortunate type of Marian effigy known under the conventional name of Madonna of the Candelabra, due to the precious motif of the two candelabra that embellishes its background. The composition in question has been examined and analysed by several art historians. None has traced its probable marble prototype, but all agree in recognizing the sculptor Antonio Rossellino – among the most famous and prolific masters of the Early Renaissance in Florence – as the inventor of the model and in attributing to him those replicas, either in stucco or in terracotta, that are distinguished by greater plastic freshness and vivacity.

ISBN: 978-88-000-0355-9

 

 

 

LONDON 2008

Carole A. Feuerman

 

::  edited by Flavio Gianassi in collaboration with Tova Ossad

:: Carole Feuerman is acknowledged as one of America's major realist sculptors. In 2004, she exhibited in "An American Odyssey 1945-1980" with the most prominentAmerican artists of the post-WWII era. A comprehensive one-person show at theQCC Art Museum entitled "Resin to Bronze Topographies"  was followed byinstallation of her work into the permanent collection of the prestigiousGrounds for Sculpture. Feuerman's selected honors include the Peabody Award,the Betty Parson Sculpture Award, the Medici Award, and the Award from CadillacMotors. Her work is included in the selected collections of President BillClinton & Senator Hillary Clinton, Dr. Kissinger, President Gorbachov, theMetropolitan Museum of Art, the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, the FortLauderdale Museum of Art, the Bass Museum, the Boca Raton Museum, and theForbes Magazine Art Collection.

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FLORENCE 2007

Dagli Eredi di Giotto al primo Cinquecento 

 

:: curated by Gabriele Caioni

 

:: A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by Elena Capretti, Andrea De Marchi, Francesco Frangi, Gaudenz Freuler, Nicoletta Pons, Angelo Tartuferi and Stefan Weppelman

::  Works Included: Bernardo Daddi, Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Anthony Abbot; Niccolò di Tommaso, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, John the Evangelist and Catherine of Alexandria; Spinello di Luca Spinelli, detto Spinello Aretino, Saint Ambrose and Saint Simon; Taddeo di Bartolo,Saint Francis and Saint Simon; Bicci di Lorenzo, Saint Louis of Toulouse between Beato Gherardo da Villamagna and Saint Anthony of Padua; Lorenzo Monaco, Saint Peter; Master of the Madonna Straus (Ambrogio di Baldese?), Madonna with Child enthroned with Saint Anthony Abbot and a kneeling Bishop; Andrea di Bartolo, The Evangelists John and Matthew; Giovanni di Marco, called Giovanni dal Ponte, Madonna with Child Enthroned with Saints Lawrence and Anastasia; Giovanni di Paolo, Madonna with Child Enthroned with Saint Bartholomew, Saint Jacob Major and two female saints; Domenico di Francesco, called Domenico di Michelino, Madonna with Child; Neri di Bicci, Saint Lawrence in Glory with four angels; Giovan Francesco da Rimini, The Coronation of the Virgin, Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Alessandro Botticelli, and workshop, Madonna with Child; Piero di Cosimo, Madonna with Child and Three Angels; Giovan Girolamo Savoldo, Saint Dominic and Saint Veneranda, Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Vincent Ferrer; Giovanni Antonio Sogliani and Lorenzo di Credi?, Coronation of the Virgin and Saints


ISBN: 978-88-596-0277-4

 

 

LONDON 2007

Luigi Ghirri. A selection of photos

 

::  edited by Flavio Gianassi

:: A selection of pictures by the Italian photographer, Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) cured b Flavio Gianassi.  Highlighting his notable series, beginning with the beginning of his career (1970 – 1973) e Paesaggi di cartone (1971-1974).  Diaframma 11 and Views (1970 – 1979) are two series in which he begins his fascination with the Italian landscape.  Highlights from his series Topographie-Iconographie (1978-1981), Paesaggio Italiano (1980 – 1992) and Strada provinciale delle anime (1988-89) are also included.

 

FLORENCE 2007

Possibilità di relazione. Dalla tradizione a A. Martinelli

 

:: in collaboration with Montrasio Arte - Milano/New York

 

:: Introduction by Fabrizio Moretti and Ruggero Montrasio, with an article by Mauro Natali.

 

 

NEW YORK 2007

Sublime Convergence: Gothic to the Abstract    

 

:: in collaboration with Richard L. Feigen & Co.- New York
 

:: Works by  Paolo Veneziano, BishopSaint, circa 1345-47, Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Anthony Abbot, circa 1345-50 T, Rossello di Jacopo Franchi, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Francis, circa 1395, Taddeo di Bartolo Saints Simon and Francis, Lorenzo Monaco, Saint Peter, circa 1407-09, Master of the Straus Madonna, Madonna with Child and Saints, circa 1410, Andrea di Bartolo, Saint John and Saint Matthew, circa 1425-28, Bicci di Lorenzo, Magdalene, circa 1430, Bernardo Daddi, Saint Dominic, with works by contemporary artists such as  William Baziotes, Autumn Leaf, 1958, Morris Graves, Cliff, Morris Graves, Mandala, 1970, Brice Marden, Number 1, 1962, Agnes Martin, Untitled #8, 1998, Barnett Newman, Untitled No. 4, 1950, Richard Pousette-Dart, Blue Blue Presence, 1974-81, Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, Blue, 1952, Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1968, Robert Ryman, Series # 25 (White), 2004, Robert Ryman, Series #  29 (White), 2004, Mark Tobey, Tatooed Space, 1950, Mark Tobey, Untitled, 1959
 

 

FLORENCE  2005

Da Allegretto Nuzi a Pietro Perugino

 

:: curated by Fabrizio Moretti e Gabriele Caioni

 

:: A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by Roberta Bartoli, Luciano Bellosi, Cristina Guarnieri, Andrea De Marchi, Jonathan K. Nelson, Francesca Pasut, Nicoletta Pons, Angelo Tartuferi

:: Wors Included: Maestro dell’Annunciazione Spinola, The Birth of Christ; Paolo Veneziano, Bishop Saint; Allegretto Nuzi, Madonna with Child; Agnolo Gaddi, Madonna of the Humility and two angels, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, an Annunciation; Maestro della Misericordia, Coronation of the Virgin with Angels and Eight Saints; Jacopo di Cione, Enthroned Madonna with Child with Saint Anthony Abbot, Saint Mary Magdalene (?), a bishop/saint, Saint Catherine of Alexandra and Eight Angels; Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Crucified Christ and Augustinian monk; Maestro della Dormitio di Terni, Madonna of Humility and Blessing Christ, Annunication, Saints Peter and Paul, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint John the Baptist; Tommaso di Cristofano, called Masolino, Saint John the Evangelist; Francesco Squarcione (attributed to), Madonna with Child surrounded by Cherubs; Giovanni di Paolo, Saint Clare of Assisi, Saint Elisabeth of Hungary; Filippo Lippi, Madonna with Child, Saint Lucy, Saint Lawrence, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Nicholas of Bari; Cosimo Rosselli, Jesus returning from the Temple with his parents; Jacopo del Sellaio, Adoring Madonna with John the Baptist; Biagio D’Antonio Tucci, Enthroned Madonna and Child with two angels; Francesco Botticini, Portrait of a Young Man; Bernardino di Bosio Zaganelli, Madonna with Child and two angels; Pietro Vannucci called il Perugino, Saint Catherine of Alexandria

 

ISBN: 88-7970-258-0

 

 

FLORENCE 2005

L'Orlando Furioso. Le illustrazioni di Paul e Gaëtan Brizzi    

 

L'Orlando

:: edited by Elizabeth Brizzi

 

::  According to the authors: “ur interest for L’Orlando Furioso began to manifest itself during the animated adaptation of Don Quixote by Cervantes.  In this masterpiece, Don Quixote often cites the heros of the poem by Aristotle, taking it as an long example on his mission to glory.  In one memorable episode, from the book, the monarch has any book from his library, that pertains to chivalry, burned.  He does, however, make an exception of the few books that he considers too precious to be destroyed, among which is L’Orlando Furioso.

Curious to find out what the monarch found so special in this book, we began to read it and we found as many fascinating things as Don Quixote.  Immediately captivated by the adventures of Orland, Ruggiero and Rinaldo, we decided to give our interpretation of their courage and love.  In conclusion of this illustrated work, the idea of an epic film seemed to us to be a new project to take into consideration."

 

ISBN: 88-8304-884-9

 

 

FLORENCE 2003

Da Ambrogio Lorenzetti a Sandro Botticelli

 

:: curated by Fabrizio Moretti

 

:: A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by  Alessandro Angelini, Luciano Bellosi, Daniele Benati, Andrea De Marchi, Gaudenz Freuler, Jonathan Katz Nelson, Nicoletta Pons, Angelo Tartuferi, Lisa Venturini.

:: The exhibition includes about thirty pictures, most of which have never been published, spanning a long and vibrant period of time: from the end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 16th century: Maestro di Monteoliveto, Taddeo Gaddi, Puccio di Simone, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Giovanni da Milano, Maestro of the Ashmolean predella, Jacopo di Cione, Andrea di Bartolo, Agnolo Gaddi, Lorenzo di Bicci, Maestro di San Pier Damiano, Maestro di Roncaiette, Maestro di Bardolino, Maestro di San Davino, Sano di Pietro, Follower of Tommaso del Mazza, Pietro di Giovanni Lianori, Jacopo del Sellaio, Francesco Botticini, Luca di Paolo di Niccolò, Botticelli (workshop), Giovanni Mazone, Pietro di Francesco Orioli, Pseudo Pierfrancesco Fiorentino, Baldassarre Carrari, “Tommaso”, Memphis Master.

 

ISBN: 88-8304-616-1
 

 

FLORENCE 2002

Quattordici importanti dipinti di natura morta del Seicento e del Settecento    

 

 

:: edited by Francesca Baldassari

 

ISBN: 88-8304-407-X

 

 

FLORENCE 2001

Pittori attivi in Toscana dal Trecento al Settecento

 

:: curated by Francesca Baldassari

 

:: A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by  Francesca Baldassari, Luciano Bellosi, Daniele Benati, Franco Canepa, Gaudenz Freuler, Laura Laureati, Nicoletta Pons, Angelo Tartuferi, Ludovica Trezzani, Lisa Venturini.
 

ISBN: 88-8304-371-5
 

 

FLORENCE 1999

Da Bernardo Daddi a Giorgio Vasari

 

:: curated by Maria Pia Mannini

 

:: A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by   Nicoletta Baldini, Luciano Bellosi, Daniele Benati, Elisa Camporeale, Sonia Chiodo, Andrea G. De Marchi, Marco Fagioli, Andrea Franci, Florian Harb, Ada Labriola, Maria Pia Mannini, Daniela Parenti, Ugo Ruggeri, Angelo Tartuferi

 

ISBN: 88-8304-104-6