The Cennini Project. For the study of the reception of the 'Book of the Art' in the world

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THE CENNINI PROJECT

For the study of the reception of the 'Book of the Art' in the world

Written around the end of 1300, and published for the first time in 1821, the 'Book of the Art' by Cennino Cennini is one of the most famous works of Italian art literature.

The diffusion of the text and the influence it has exercised, in different historical periods and across geographical areas that are very far apart, are widely underestimated facts.

Since its birth 'Letteratura artistica' investigates the cross-cultural dimension of the reception of this work. Below, you can find displayed a list of posts dedicated to the 'Book of the Art’, starting from a check-list of all published editions and then with references to specific cultural aspects related to the translations in the individual countries.

CHECK-LIST

Giovanni Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini and the "Book of Art": a Check-list of the Printed Editions. First part: from 1821 to 1900.

Giovanni Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini and the "Book of Art": a Check-list of the Printed Editions. Second part: from 1901 to 1950. 

Giovanni Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini and the "Book of Art": a Check-list of the Printed Editions. Third part: from 1951 onwards.

AN OVERALL ASSESSMENT

Giovanni Mazzaferro. The 'Book of the Art' by Cennino Cennini (1821-1950): an Example of Dissemination of Italian Culture in the World. Part One

Giovanni Mazzaferro. The 'Book of the Art' by Cennino Cennini (1821-1950): an Example of Dissemination of Italian Culture in the World. Part Two

Giovanni Mazzaferro. The 'Book of the Art' by Cennino Cennini (1821-1950): an Example of Dissemination of Italian Culture in the World. Part Three

Margherita d'Ayala Valva. Gli "scopi pratici moderni" del Libro dell'arte di Cennino Cennini: le edizioni primonovecentesche di Herringham, Renoir, Simi e Verkade da PARAGONE/ARTE n 64/669 Novembre 2005 [available only in Italian language]

Francesco Mazzaferro Gino Severini and the Sacred Art in a European Context: The Influence of Cennini’s 'Book of the Art'


CONTEMPORARY EDITIONS

Lara Broecke. Cennino Cennini's 'Il Libro dell'arte'. A new English translation and commentary with Italian transcription. London, Archetype Publishers, 2015


CENNINO AND ENGLAND

Giovanni Mazzaferro. Mary P. Merrifield and the First English Translation of Cennino Cennini's 'Book of the Art': the press reviews at that time

CENNINO AND THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE

Francesco Mazzaferro. Albert Ilg and Julius von Schlosser: Two Different Interpretations of Cennino Cennini in Austria-Hungary of 1871 and 1914. Part One

Francesco Mazzaferro. Albert Ilg and Julius von Schlosser: Two Different Interpretations of Cennino Cennini in Austria-Hungary of 1871 and 1914. Part Two

CENNINO BETWEEN GERMANY AND FRANCE DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Francesco Mazzaferro. Jan Verkade, Cennino Cennini and the Quest for Spiritual Art in the Mid of World War I. Part One

Francesco Mazzaferro. Jan Verkade, Cennino Cennini and the Quest for Spiritual Art in the Mid of World War I. Part Two

CENNINO AND POLAND

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini in 1924 Poland: the Journal ‘Sztuka i Artysta’ between Theory of Art and Commercial Promotion

Francesco Mazzaferro. Florence - Warsaw, 1931 - 1934: Jan Zamoyski, Samuel Tyszkiewicz and a collective translation of Cennino Cennini's 'Book of the Art' into Polish

CENNINO AND HUNGARY

Giovanni Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini, an Enigmatic Edition and Hungary in the First 1900

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini in Hungary: At the Search of the Anonymous Author of the first Hungarian Translation

Giovanni Mazzaferro. "My Gratitude to Cennino Cennini, my Tribute to the Masters of Siena": the Myth of Cennino Cennini and a 'Art Nouveau' Fresco in Budapest

Zsuzsanna Benkő. The Cennini Society. The influence of Cennino Cennini's 'Trattato della pittura' on the life and works of the Hungarian Gödöllő Artists' Colony and György Leszkovszky

CENNINO AND JAPAN

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini between Europe and Japan. The Translation by Tsune Nakamura

CENNINO AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mark Clarke. Pentimenti: DV Thompson's Reflections on his Translation of Cennini

CENNINO AND THE SOVIET UNION

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennino and Stalin's 'Neo-renaissance': the Russian Translation of the "Book of the Art" (1933)

CENNINO AND ROMANIA

Francesco Mazzaferro. Dimitrie Belisare and the Romanian Translation of Cennino Cennini's 'Book of the art' (around 1936-37)

CENNINO AND NORWAY

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini, Alf Rolfsen and the Art of Fresco in Twentieth Century Norway

CENNINO, ARGENTINA AND SPAIN

Giovanni Mazzaferro. The First Spanish Translation of the 'Book of the Art' by Cennino Cennini: a small Italian-Argentine Miracle


CENNINO AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Francesco Mazzaferro. The Strange Story of Cennino Cennini in Prague. The Mysteries of the Czech translation of the 'Book of the Art' in 1946

CENNINO AND SWEDEN

Francesco Mazzaferro. Sigurd Möller painter and translator of Cennino Cennini in Swedish


CENNINO AND SERBIA

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennini, the Academy of Fine Arts and the two different worlds of the Serbian translations in 1950 and 1999

ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE WORK

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini vs. Leon Battista Alberti: Variations on the Concept of Pictorial Composition. Part One

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini vs. Leon Battista Alberti: Variations on the Concept of Pictorial Composition. Part Two

Francesco Mazzaferro. Cennino Cennini vs. Leon Battista Alberti: Variations on the Concept of Pictorial Composition. Part Three

Cennino Cennini in Berlin. Review of the Catalogue of the 2008 Berlin Exhibition

Cennino Cennini: a modern or a traditionalist? An essay by Peter Seiler on the relations between Cennini and Giotto (review by Francesco Mazzaferro)


CENNINI'S LANGUAGE

Veronica Ricotta. 'Ut pictura lingua'. Lexical reflexions from Cennino Cennini’s 'Book of the Art'