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various authors
madrid. at long last the work of art could once more be experienced directly and
the overall unity, including the dialogue between architecture and painting, fully
appreciated.
The book is divided into three sections: 1) the story of the original painting still in the
musée du Louvre, Paris; 2) a detailed description of the technical processes involved in
producing the facsimile; 3) critical reflections in the fields of aesthetics and art history
about the significance of the operation and the new light it brings on issues in the
conservation and restoration of art works.
as many of the considerations in the third section show, the new perspectives created by
the facsimile lead us to conceive the “aura” of a painting in a dynamic way, as something
which can effectively “migrate,” from one place to another, from the original to
its “copies”. This English version is an updated and enhanced edition of the catalogue
Il miracolo di Cana. L’originalità della ri-produzione (2007).
Essays
The Architectures of Babel
Creation, Extinctions and Intercessions in the Languages
of the Global World
edited by Tiziana migliore and Paolo fabbri
collana civiltà Veneziana. Studi, vol. 53
L. S. Olschki, florence, 2011
This volume contains all the talks and discussions from the second edition of the Dialoghi
di San Giorgio on the topic of “The architectures of Babel”, organised by the Giorgio
cini foundation. Linguists, semiologists, philosophers, sociologists, scientists and poets
discuss the role of languages in cultural, ethnic and religious integration or conflicts.
Starting from contemporary examples, various scholars interpret the Babel diaspora as a
resource replacing the impossible ideal of a single language with the fruitful alternative
of translation. another issue discussed is the mutation of languages. Today languages
seem more and more to be syncretisms of words, graphs, numbers, images, rather than
verbal systems. in the light of the effects of the “globalised society”, the scholars at the
Dialogue sought to understand how languages can increase the value of cultural specificity,
how they can favour new knowledge structures and play a role in preserving while
promoting cultural differences.
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