Name Giulio Argan Role Italian Politician | ||
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Books L' arte moderna, Storia dell'arte italiana Similar People Achille Bonito Oliva, Cesare Brandi, Maurizio Dell'Arco, Palma Bucarelli, Giuseppe Capogrossi | ||
Intervista a giulio carlo argan su gino cortelazzo
Giulio Carlo Argan (17 May 1909 – 12 November 1992) was an Italian art historian and politician.
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- Intervista a giulio carlo argan su gino cortelazzo
- Caravaggio 4 opere raccontate da g c argan
- Biography
- Selected works
- References
Caravaggio 4 opere raccontate da g c argan
Biography
Argan was born in Turin and studied in the University of Turin, graduating in 1931. In 1928 he entered the National Fascist Party. In the 1930 he worked for the National Antiquity and Arts Directorate, first in Turin and then in Modena and Rome, where he collaborated to the creation of the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro and directed the magazine Le Arti. His career was boosted by the friendship of the Fascist leader Cesare Maria De Vecchi, then national Minister of Education.
In 1938 he published a manual of art for high schools, while in the 1940s he collaborated to the magazine Primato, founded and directed by Giuseppe Bottai, another Fascist gerarca. After World War II, he taught in universities Palermo and, from 1959, in Rome. Argan co-founded the publishing house Il Saggiatore and he was a member of the Superior Council of Antiquities and Fine Arts (predecessor of the Ministry of Culture), in which he remained until 1974. In 1968 he published his most famous work, Storia dell'Arte Italiana (History of Italian Art). In 1973 he founded the Rome ISIA, Italy's oldest institution in the field of industrial design.
He was the first Communist mayor of Rome, between 1976 and 1979. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He died in Rome.