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Cesare Brandi

チェーザレ・ブランディ

Chezare Burandi

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1906-04-08 (Siena)
Died
1988-01-19 (Vignano (Siena)) age 81
Nationality
Italy
Languages
Italian
Residence History
Siena → Florence → Bologna → Udine → Rome

Career

Occupations
Art historian, Historian, Art critic, Art theorist, Poet
Active Years
1928-1988
Affiliations
Istituto Centrale per il Restauro
Influenced By
Benedetto Croce, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edmund Husserl, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Influenced
Roland Barthes

Education

University of Florence
Faculty of Literature / Department of Literature
Period: 1920年代
Year of Graduation: 1928
Country: Italy
Graduated in literature

Awards

Feltrinelli Prize
1958
Category: 批評
Organization: Accademia dei Lincei
Result: 受賞
Feltrinelli Prize
1980
Category: 批評
Organization: Accademia dei Lincei
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Teoria del Restauro

1963 Art Theory

Foundational text on restoration theory

RestorationConservationEssence of Art

Le due vie

1966 Criticism

Main book on art criticism

Art CriticismPhenomenology

Teoria generale della critica

1974 Theory of Criticism

General theory of criticism

CriticismTheory

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Phenomenological approachTheoretical analysis
Recurring Motifs
Unity in restorationPotential unity of art

Legacy

Founder of the modern Italian school of conservation, influential worldwide with his Theory of Restoration