Giulio Carlo Argan

Giulio Carlo Argan (17 May 1909 – 12 November 1992) was an Italian art historian and politician.

Biography

Argan was born in Turin and studied in the University of Turin, graduating in 1931. In 1928 he entered the National Fascist Party. In the 1930 he worked for the National Antiquity and Arts Directorate, first in Turin and then in Modena and Rome, where he collaborated to the creation of the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro and directed the magazine Le Arti. His career was boosted by the friendship of the Fascist leader Cesare Maria De Vecchi, then national Minister of Education.

In 1938 he published a manual of art for high schools, while in the 1940s he collaborated to the magazine Primato, founded and directed by Giuseppe Bottai, another Fascist gerarca. After World War II, he taught in universities Palermo and, from 1959, in Rome. Argan co-founded the publisher Il Saggiatore and he was a member of the Superior Council of Antiquities and Fine Arts (predecessor of the Ministry of Culture), in which he remained until 1974. In 1968 he published his most famous work, Storia dell'Arte Italiana. In 1973 he founded Rome ISIA, Italy's oldest institution in the field of industrial design.

He was the first Communist mayor of Rome, between 1976 and 1979. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.^[1] He died in Rome.

Selected works

• Studi e note (1955)
• Salvezza e caduta nell’arte moderna (1964)
• Progetto e destino (1965)
• Storia dell'arte italiana (1968)
• Storia dell’arte come storia della città (1983)
• Da Hogarth a Picasso (1983)
• Forma Naturae (Archetipi & C.) for Antonio Papasso (1983)
• Classico Anticlassico (1984)
• Immagine e persuasione (1986)
• Progetto e oggetto (2003)

References

External links

• Italian site about the life and works of Giulio Carlo Argan

Sporting positions
Preceded by Dunc Gray	President of Organizing Committee for Summer Olympic Games 1960	Succeeded by Ryokichi Minobe

Mayors of Rome Giuseppe Lunati Filippo Doria Pamphili Giovanni Angelini Francesco Pallavicini Francesco Grispigni Pietro Venturi Luigi Pianciani Pietro Venturi Emanuele Ruspoli Augusto Armellini Luigi Pianciani Leopoldo Torlonia Alessandro Guccioli Augusto Armellini Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile Onorato Caetani Emanuele Ruspoli Enrico Gallupi Prospero Colonna Carlo Palomba Giovanni Cruciani Alibrandi Cesare Salvarezza Ernesto Nathan Fausto Aphel Prospero Colonna Adolfo Appolloni Luigi Rava Giovanni Valli Filippo Cremonesi Ludovico Spada Potenziani Francesco Boncompagni Ludovisi Giuseppe Bottai Piero Colonna Giancarlo Borghese Riccardo Motta Giovanni Orgera Roberto Bencivenga Andrea Doria Panphili Mario De Cesare Salvatore Robecchini Umberto Tupini Urbano Cioccetti Francesco Diana Glauco Della Porta Americo Petrucci Rinaldo Santini Clelio Darida Giovanni Starita Giulio Carlo Argan Luigi Petroselli Ugo Vetere Nicola Signorello Pietro Giubilo Angelo Barbato Franco Carraro Alessandro Voci Francesco Rutelli Walter Veltroni Gianni Alemanno Ignazio Marino