Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (18 March 1910 – 3 August 1987) was an Italian art critic, historian, philosopher of art and politician.
Life
Born in
Lucca
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Lucca is known as one o ...
, Ragghianti studied in
Pisa
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, where he was a pupil of
Matteo Marangoni. His education was influenced by
Benedetto Croce
Benedetto Croce (; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952)
was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a lib ...
and by his theory of "pure visibility"; then he approached and deepened the theories of
Konrad Fiedler,
Alois Riegl
Alois Riegl (14 January 1858, Linz – 17 June 1905, Vienna) was an Austrian art historian, and is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History. He was one of the major figures in the establishment of art history as a self-sufficient ac ...
, and
Julius von Schlosser
Julius Alwin Franz Georg Andreas Ritter von Schlosser (23 September 1866, Vienna – 1 December 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian art historian and an important member of the Vienna School of Art History. According to Ernst Gombrich, he was "One of t ...
.
[Raffaele Bruno (cured by). ''Ragghianti critico e politico''. Franco Angeli, 2004. .]
He started his career as a scholar in 1933 with essays on
the Carracci
The Carracci ( , , ) were a Bolognese family of artists that played an instrumental role in bringing forth the Baroque style in painting. Brothers Annibale (1560–1609) and Agostino (1557–1602) along with their cousin Ludovico (1555–161 ...
and
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculpt ...
; later he wrote on cinema and the entertainment industry as expressions of visual art, thus demonstrating his interest in all manifestations of the visual language. In 1935 he founded together with Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli the magazine ''Critica d'arte''.
[
Ragghianti was among the founders of the Action Party and after September 8, 1943 he organized armed resistance in ]Tuscany
Tuscany ( ; it, Toscana ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence (''Firenze'').
Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, art ...
. He was president of the Tuscan National Liberation Committee
The National Liberation Committee ( it, Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, CLN) was a political umbrella organization and the main representative of the Italian resistance movement fighting against Nazi Germany’s forces during the German occup ...
and headed the liberation of Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
on August 8, 1944.[Giorgio Spini, Antonio Casali. ''Storia delle città italiane: Firenze'', Volume 2. Laterza, 1986. .] Ragghianti was undersecretary to the arts and entertainment in the Parri cabinet.[ From 1952 to 1965, along with his wife Licia Collobi, he directed the art magazine ''SeleArte''.][ He was a member of the jury at the 16th Venice International Film Festival.]
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1910 births
1987 deaths
Action Party (Italy) politicians
20th-century Italian politicians
Italian art historians
Italian art critics
Italian magazine editors
20th-century Italian philosophers
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