This volume is the critical catalogue of the exhibition “X Biennale d’Arte Antica – L’arte del Settecento in Emilia e in Romagna. L’età neoclassica a Faenza 1780-1820” held at Palazzo Milzetti (Faenza) from 9 September to 26 November 1979. It offers a richly documented survey of the neoclassical flowering in Faenza and the surrounding region between 1780 and 1820, situating provincial art-production within larger currents of European classicism, decorative arts and architectural reform. With detailed illustrations and scholarly essays, it highlights major figures, workshops and patronage networks while underscoring the region’s contribution to the broader narrative of Enlightenment-era aesthetics and the transition into the early nineteenth century. A key resource for historians of Italian regional art, neoclassicism and the visual culture of Emilia-Romagna.
Author:A. Ottani Cavina, F. Bertoni, A. M. Matteucci (eds)