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This gallery offers a selection of works of
visual art representing the guitar,
selected from famous masterpieces and little
known works, to sketch a visual path of the
guitar in Italy during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. The project means to
deepen the musical world of this period
through a research about the iconography, a
valuable source of information on aspects such
as sociability of music, the aesthetics of a
period, the organology.
The works in the gallery, executed by Italian
artists and foreign artists, are collected using
three trends of research:
1.works of Italian artists attesting the
evolution of the representation of the guitar in
Italy in different historical moments;
2. portraits of Italian guitarists;
3. works of foreign artists representing Italian
personalities associated with this instrumental
context.
Following a chronological order, for each work
are specified the author, the title, the date,
the artistical techniques, the size of the work
and the current location, with the aim of
bringing unfamiliar or difficult to find works
to the attention of researchers. For the
iconographic documents produced through
reproduction in print, such as lithography,
woodcut, etching, etc., are indicated in
sequence, the author of the drawing, the title,
the date, the author and the technique of the
printing, the size of the work and the current
location.
The research, which remains open to suggestions
and additions, focuses on works held in museums,
galleries, libraries, public and private
archives and collections in order to highlight,
from a different point of view, the Italian
guitar context through the artistic and cultural
contribution of the iconographic heritage.
Carla Costa
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The
captions
of the
images
are
an indication
of the collection
(public
or
private)
to which they belong.
The
editors
of
this
iconographic research,
are
available
to
those who
have
rights,
for the specification of
data
files,
or
to
remove
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