9 art books for Christmas: from Vasari to Goya and Japanese prints
Marco Enrico Giacomelli presents nine art book recommendations for Christmas gifts, focusing on pre-20th-century artists. The selection includes a modern-language edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives on sculpture and architecture by Claudio Donzelli (Donzelli, 2020), Erwin Panofsky's rediscovered 1920 dissertation on Michelangelo published by Princeton University Press (2020), Electa's publications on Giulio Romano (2019), a facsimile of Goya's Cuaderno C co-published by Museo del Prado and Skira (2020), two books on Canova by Vittorio Sgarbi & Luigi Spina (5 Continents, 2020) and Skira (2019), Amélie Balcou's leporello on geishas in Japanese prints (L'ippocampo, 2020), and Michel Delahoutre's L'arte indiana (Jaca Book, 2020). The article is from Artribune.
Key facts
- Giorgio Vasari's I capolavori del Rinascimento raccontati da me. La scultura e l'architettura published by Donzelli in 2020, 308 pages, €35.
- Erwin Panofsky's Michelangelo's Design Principles, his 1920 dissertation rediscovered in 2012 at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, published by Princeton University Press in 2020, 408 pages, £34.
- Two Electa books on Giulio Romano: Giulia Romano. Arte e desiderio (€35) and I Modi. Giulio Romano e gli altri (€10), both 2019.
- Francisco de Goya's Cuaderno C facsimile, co-published by Museo del Prado and Skira in 2020, 306 pages, €40, with text by José Manuel Matilla.
- Canova Thorvaldsen. La nascita della scultura moderna catalog by Gallerie d'Italia-Skira (2019, €42) and Canova. Quattro tempi by Vittorio Sgarbi & Luigi Spina (5 Continents, 2020, €40).
- Amélie Balcou's Geishe celebrate dai maestri della stampa giapponese published by L'ippocampo in 2020, 196 pages, €29.90, featuring works by Utamaro and Hokusai.
- Michel Delahoutre's L'arte indiana published by Jaca Book in 2020, 230 pages, €70, originally from 1979.
- The article is by Marco Enrico Giacomelli on Artribune.
Entities
Artists
- Giorgio Vasari
- Michelangelo
- Raffaello
- Giulio Romano
- Francisco de Goya
- Antonio Canova
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Michel Delahoutre
- Erwin Panofsky
- Gerda Panofsky
- Claudio Donzelli
- Vittorio Sgarbi
- Luigi Spina
- Amélie Balcou
- José Manuel Matilla
- Barbara Furlotti
- Guido Rebecchini
- Linda Wolf-Simon
- Bette Talvacchia
- Maria Antonella Fusco
- Stefano Grandesso
- Fernando Marzocca
Institutions
- Donzelli
- Princeton University Press
- Electa
- Museo del Prado
- Skira
- Gallerie d'Italia
- 5 Continents
- L'ippocampo
- Jaca Book
- Artribune
- Università di Amburgo
- Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
- Palazzo Te
- Gypsotheca di Possagno
Locations
- Roma
- Italy
- Princeton
- Oxford
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Milano
- Mantova
- Madrid
- Spain
- Possagno
- Trevigiano
- Giappone
- Japan
- India
- Monaco
- Germany