Giulio Carlo Argan

Hi, I write a mini essay about my oral presentation of today. This way you can know more about one of my favorite historian of art and architecture, and one reader fundamental in the history of occidental's culture.

Giulio Carlo Argan borned in Turin on 1909, and dead in Rome on 1992. He is a Italian person, because of that, he studied the history about his culture, in diverse aspects. Is important his nationallity because his most important studies are about the Italian's production, and when we thinking about the "Italian", only we put a date on with the foundation of Florence, the first modern state. In his book "Renaissance and baroque", he was reflexion to the piece of art in the Florence, Milan, Venice and Rome. Are very short his reference about the production in others places in Europe (even when we know exist baroque in others places, like in Spain or Belgium).
Because of that, is significant when he wrote about the modern art, center on the Bauhaus (a movement of vanguard in Germany). One explanation of that, is when the Bauhaus started in Germany, in Italy the futurists took the control of art, and the futurist is a fascist's movement. And Argan is a member of the communist party.
The polical practics in Argan is fundamental, because of that we can know because he was more interested in the Bauhaus, a school in the left of the politics. Also, the political tendency of Argan did traveled around the world, he found the pieces of art with a strong political sense, a significant topic for a good critic of Argan. We don't forget Argan was mayor of Rome, between 1976 and 1979 for the communist party, and he took an amazing choice, that was take care of Rome, like a one magnify master piece.

You must read to Giulio Carlo Argan, a fundamental reader about the art and the cities of the world.