In the Kitchen of Art by Marco Grassi - ISBN: 9781641771955
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Florentine upbringing, Italian art, and grand collectors: A world in the round.

In the Kitchen of Art

Selected Essays and Criticism, 2003-20

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    240 pages

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    4 July 2021

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Summary

Deeply learned, and with a style all his own, Marco Grassi is as at home with Duccio as he is with Norton Simon; Bronzino as with Bernard Berenson; a painting on his desk as with a Last Supper in Florence’s Basilica of Santa Croce. In the Kitchen of Art selects the art conservator and dealer’s most memorable contributions to The New Criterion over a span of nearly twenty years. Beginning with a previously unpublished memoir of his own Florentine upbringing, and cont…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781641771955
ISBN-10:164177195X
Author:Marco Grassi
Publisher:Encounter Books,USA
Imprint:Encounter Books,USA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:4 July 2021
Dimensions:203mm x 127mm
About The Author

Marco Grassi

Marco Grassi, of a Florentine family long active as collectors, dealers, and scholars of Renaissance art, completed undergraduate studies at Princeton. After military service, he trained as a fine arts conservator at the Uffizi in Florence, as well as in Rome and Zrich. His first professional practice was in his native city, and he later served as a visiting and consulting conservator to a number of prominent private collectors, including H. H. Thyssen-Bornemisza in Lugano and Norton Simon in Pasadena. Beginning in the early 1970s, he continued his conservation practice, dividing his time between New York and Europe, where, to this day, he serves a diverse clientele of collectors and dealers. He now also partners with his son Matteo, a dealer of European Old Master paintings based in Paris. Marco and his wife Cristina Sanpaolesi Grassi, a pastel artist, have homes in New York and Florence.

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