Introduzione Bruno Zanardi This essay acts as an introduction to the 23 texts dedicated to or written by Giovanni Urbani, director of the Italian Institute for Restoration (Istituto Centrale del Restauro – ICR) from 1973 to 1983.

Per un profilo biografiodi 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…

Bibliografia di Giovanni Urbani (1947-2000) Bruno Zanardi

La mia amicizia con Giovanni.Un dialogo di Raffaele La Capriacon Bruno Zanardi Raffaele La Capria In this interview Raffaele La Capria, neapolitan writer, remembers his life long, deep friendship with Giovanni Urbani from their first meeting at Harvard seminar in 1957 to Urbani’s death in Rome in 1986.

Il daimon di Giovanni Giorgio Agamben Giorgio Agamben met Govanni Urbani in 1963 in Rome. In this interview he remembers the elitary being of Urbani, his lively intelligence and wide knowlegde. In recalling their intellectual friendship, Agamben focuses in particular on their common reflection on Martin Heidegger’s oeuvre very little known in Italy at that…

Così si possono salvare i monumentidai terremoti Cesare Brandi In this article, published in one of the main Italian newspaper, the «Corriere della Sera», Cesare Brandi, former director of the ICR, strongly supports Urbani’s decision to withdrawn from the position of director of the ICR in 1983. This was the very same year when Urbani…

Il terremoto in Italia.Un dialogo di Bruno Zanardicon Francesco Sacco Francesco Sacco In this dialogue with Bruno Zanardi, the architect Francesco Sacco, designer of Urbani’s 1983 exhibition dedicated to La protezione del patrimonio monumentale dai terremoti, adds many relevants details on Urbani’s activity in the field of preservation of cultural heritage.

La genesi della Teoria del restauro.Un dialogo di Joselita Raspi Serracon Bruno Zanardi Joselita Raspi Serra In this short interview Joseplita Raspi Serra tells the history of Cesare Brandi’s Teoria del Restauro, one of the pillar of the philosophy of restoration, since its birth as a series of essays publicated on the «Bollettino dell’ICR» during…

Uno sguardo sul restauro dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi.Una conversazione con Giorgio Torraca Bruno Zanardi Giorgio perché amico storico di Urbani – coetanei, furono ragazzi insieme a Roma – ma soprattutto perché si dovette a Urbani il suo incontro con il mondo del restauro, orientandone in tal modo per sempre la carriera. Una carriera legata…

Giovanni Urbani e la fondazione dellemoderne foderature dei dipinti su tela. Bruno Zanardi Incontro Walter Conti e Enzo Tassinari per parlare del lavoro di ricerca sulle foderature dei dipinti su tela, che condussero insieme a Giovanni Urbani1, tra la fine degli anni ’60 e gli inizi del decennio successivo, quindi già prima di quando, nel…