Resumen de Un scritto inedito di Francesco Arcangeli su Gustave Coubert
A hitherto unpublished typescript by Francesco Arcangeli comments on the Coubert retrospective held at the 1954 Venice Biennale. Notwithstanding its non-academic format (it was for a broadcast), the text offers a new reading of the French master's work. For Arcangeli Coubert was a painter who hid his feelings behind a deliberate realism: his Romanticism is rooted above all in landscape painting, in a total immersion in nature, where the Romantic spirit finds is greatest expression. This piece of writing -contemporary with "Gli ultumi naturalisti" (published in this journal, November 1954), a fundamental text of Arcangeli's poetics -conveys the importance of the study of nineteenth-century culture with respect to the scholar's own time.
