SHORT ARTICLES Rosalba Art Nouveau through Cilione, Simona ART NOUVEAUdocumentary material Pandolfi Italy Carlo Bugatti, chairs with flowers painted by Giovanni Segatini, 1887-88 ca., photograph held in the Archives of 20th Century Italian Applied Arts 130 Uncommon Culture The Archives were founded to valorise Italian decorative arts and hold documents of various types, including photographs, letters, magazines, and publications dedicated to artists and manufacturers active during the first half of the 20th century. Cover of the magazine “Novissima”, 1902, illustrated by Antonio Rizzi The Archives of 20th Century Italian Ap- lotti. In addition, the archives hold documen- plied Arts are a documentation and research tary material on artists including Ulisse Arata, centre with a specialized library founded in Domenico Baccarini, Giacomo Balla, Alfredo 1987 by Irene de Guttry, Maria Paola Maino, Baruffi, Ernesto Basile, Alfredo Biagini, Um- and Mario Quesada (in 2002, Gabriella Tar- berto Bottazzi, Giovanni Buffa, Carlo Bugatti, quini succeeded Mario Quesada, who died in Felice Casorati, Ezio Castellucci, Galileo Chi- 1996). The Archives were founded to valorise ni, Camillo Innocenti, Giorgio Kienerk, Alber- Italian decorative arts and hold documents of to Martini, Aleardo Terzi, Edoardo Rubino, various types, including photographs, letters, Ettore Ximenes, Vittorio Zecchin, and Carlo magazines, and publications dedicated to ar- Zen. tists and manufacturers active during the first half of the 20th century. The focus is on works One of the newest publications of the Archi- th of applied art (furniture, ceramics, glassworks, ves of 20 Century Italian Applied Arts is An- wrought iron, tapestries, posters, book illust- tiquariato del '900, edited by Irene de Guttry and rations, etc.) with a particular emphasis on Maria Paola Maino with the collaboration of certain Roman artists, such as Duilio Cambel- Gabriella Tarquini, published by Il Sole 24 Ore zupapomidorowa oreszabadabadaamore 131 Uncommon Culture SHORT ARTICLES ART NOUVEAU Alessandro Mazzucotelli, cases for cigarettes, plate published in Modelli d'arte decorativa, 1907 in 2013. This is a thirty-volume series on the and commitment to disseminating knowledge applied arts that aims to provide a framework on the applied arts to the public at large. The for learning about the main authors and artistic Archives participate in the Partage Plus - Art movements from Art Nouveau to the post- Nouveau project by contributing magazines, WWII era, and testifies to its authors’ interest books, paper documents and photographs. 132 szapobas Uncommon Culture Annex to the letter sent by Gabriele D'Annunzio to Adolfo De Carolis, 5/04/1902, with indications for completing the drawing for the weather vane of the dog pound The magazine Novissima, one of the most ele- gant expressions of Italian Art Nouveau, was founded in 1901 by Edoardo de Fonseca, an intellectual who shared the modernist ideas of the artists who collaborated with the magazine, including Aleardo Terzi, Antonio Rizzi, Ric- cardo Galli, Giorgio Kienerk, Alberto Micheli, Luigi Brunelli, Duilio Cambellotti, Marcello Dudovich, Luigi Bompard, and Alfredo Ba- ruffi. With its innovative graphic design, Novis- sima published literary and journalistic essays, numerous plates of graphic art, columns, and an advertising section at the end, with ads ran- ging from Fernet-Branca to the ceramics maker Richard Ginori. After two years in Mi- lan, the magazine was transferred to Rome in 1903, and the last issue was published in 1910. Il Giovane Artista Moderno was a magazine foun- ded in Turin in 1902, the year in which the influence of Art Nouveau in Italy was at its ³ñ zenith. The first year’s issues are dedicated for the most part to the First International Exhi- bition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin, on which occasion the leading examples of Art Nouveau architecture, furniture, and applied arts in Europe were exhibited. The documents described during the initial The Archives of 20th Century Italian Applied phase of the project are contained in the Arts, while concentrating on studying the ap- following magazines: “Novissima”, “Il Giovane plied arts in Italy, also hold numerous issues of Artista Moderno”, “Art et Décoration: revue men- foreign magazines, such as “Art et Décoration: suelle d'art moderne”, “L'Art Décoratif: revue de l'art revue mensuelle d'art moderne”, “L’Art Décoratif: ancien & de la vie artistique moderne”, “L'Art Dé- revue mensuelle d’art contemporain” and “The Studio: coratif: revue mensuelle d'art contemporain”, “Revue an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art”. des Arts Décoratifs”, “The Artist: an illustrated These magazines are important for documen- monthly record of arts crafts and industries”, “The ting the modern style in an international Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied setting. In England, a key role in disseminating art”, and in the series of volumes that come Art Nouveau was played by the magazine The with “Il Sole 24 Ore”: Antiquariato del '900, Studio, founded in London in 1893, which edited by Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola organized applied art competitions. The Paris- Maino (Milan, Il Sole 24 Ore, 2013). based magazines Art et Décoration and L’Art Décoratif, the former founded in 1897 and the latterarts. 133 Uncommon Culture SHORT ARTICLES ART NOUVEAU Letter with watercolour sent by Giulio Aristide Sartorio to Pietro Giorgi, April 1884 latter in 1898, were vital for the development centre: the National Central Library of Ro- of Art Nouveau in France, especially with me, one of the two Italian state libraries whose regard to the applied arts. main purpose is to collect and archive all na- tional publications. With about 7,000,000 During the second phase of the project, other printed books, 2,000 incunables, 25,000 post- Italian magazines that played an important role incunables, 8,000 manuscripts, 10,000 prints in disseminating Art Nouveau in Italy were and drawings, 20,000 maps, and 1,342,154 bro- digitized. One of these is Emporium, an illus- chures it is the largest library in Italy. The trated magazine founded in 1895 and inspired building that currently houses it was built be- by The Studio and other international maga- tween 1965 and 1975 by a group of architects - zines. For this reason, it played a significant Massimo Castellazzi, Tullio Dell'Anese, and role in popularizing the main European artistic Annibale Vitellozzi - who adhered to the currents of the time, such as the Pre-Rapha- International Style current. elites and the Jugendstil movement, helping shape artistic tastes in Italy. The National Central Library of Rome parti- cipates in the Partage Plus - Art Nouveau Some of the documents related to the project’s project with magazines such as Per l’arte: rivista first phase are drawn from a second resource bimestrale d’arte decorativa (seven volumes, from 134 centreprintsnese Collection Uncommon Culture Postcard sent by Giovanni Buffa to Ugo Ojetti, Milan, 12/06/1908. The document is illustrated with an image of a plate glass window by G. Beltrami & C., where Buffa himself worked 1909 to 1915) and Modelli d’arte decorativa (eight make paintings inspired by the Pre- volumes from 1907 to 1915). These magazines Raphaelites. Starting in 1900 he was full pro- contain illustrations of works and models of fessor of ornament at the Florence Academy art by various artists including Adolfo De Ca- of Fine Arts. His friendship and collaboration rolis and Duilio Cambellotti. The cataloguing with Gabriele D’Annunzio, as evidenced by of these two magazines was completed during their frequent correspondence, led to the sta- the second phase of the project. Additionally, ging of some of his theatre pieces. Around documents held in four historical collections 1905 De Carolis began to show interest in the of the National Gallery of Modern Art were unity of the arts, and in decorative and applied catalogued and digitized: the Adolfo De Ca- art. In 1915 he was given the chair of deco- rolis Collection, the Giulio Aristide Sartorio rative arts at the Brera Academy and sub- Collection, the Ugo Ojetti Collection, and the sequently at the Rome Academy, where he Umberto Prencipe Collection. taught scenography and decoration. In 1924 he published a treatise on xylography, an art that Adolfo De Carolis Collection had been forgotten for centuries, and which he helped bring back to the fore thanks his pas- Adolfo De Carolis (De Karolis) was born in sionate research and studies on ancient art. He 1874. He studied at the Bologna Academy of died in 1928. Fine Arts and attended the School of De- corative Painting in Rome. In 1896, he joined The De Carolis collection, purchased in 1986, the In Arte Libertas association and began to augmented the National Gallery of Modern makeunityssionate salatka baklarzanowa 135 Uncommon Culture SHORT ARTICLES ART NOUVEAU Greeting card sent by Vittorio Ducrot to Ugo Ojetti, Palermo, 30/12/1904 Art’s extensive holdings of material about De Carolis. The archives, which were kept by De Carolis’s daughter Adriana, together with her husband Diego Pettinelli, who was a pupil of his father-in-law, maintain their original alpha- betical arrangement by correspondent. In 1997 the archive was augmented by a collection of 128 photographs and 8 small drawings. The De Carolis Collection includes various photo- graphs, some taken by the artist himself, which testify to his interest for Renaissance art and photography in general, which often served as inspiration for his own works. Giulio Aristide Sartorio Collection to gain first-hand experience with Pre-Rapha- elite art, he worked as a professor at the Giulio Aristide Sartorio was born in 1860. He Weimar Academy from 1895 to 1899. During learned the art of drawing from his father this sojourn, he completed his diptych Diana of Raffaele and his grandfather Girolamo, both Ephesus and the slaves and Gorgon and the heroes, of whom were sculptors.