Per un profilo biografio
di Giovanni Urbani (1925-1994)
Bruno Zanardi
This paper represents the first biography of Giovanni Urbani, from the beginning of his career at the ICR, where he met Cesare Brandi, to his appointment as a director in 1973. Then Urbani quitted this institution in 1983. Some turning points of his career, such as his activity as a contemporary art critic during between midth Fifties to midth Sixties, his meeting and cooperation with the ICR director Pasquale Rotondi, are here for the first time discussed.