Resumen de Courbet in Italia: una storia novecentesca, II
This study offers an analysis of the critical reception and exhibition history of Courbet in Italy between 1920 and 1954, the year of the second retrospective dedicated to him at the Venice Biennale. Starting with detailed documentary research, the author also discusses some of the fortunes of Courbet's paintings, supported by published and unpublished sources, or through iconographical hypotheses. The artist involved here include Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Socrate, Giorgio Morandi and Felice Carena. While Roberto Longhi continues to be central to the Italian reassesment of Courbet, in part conditioning how his work was received, the publication of texts in Germanay and France contributed to the spread of images and the consequent revival of certain subjects.
