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Studio per “Del bello intelligibile”, 1978
GPC-0481
Study for “Del bello intelligibile”
Pencil and collage on paper
35 x 50 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “Studio per / “Del bello intelligibile” / Giulio Paolini / 1978”
Collection of the artist
• Image of the eye from Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana completa 13 (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate XXV, no. 60 (“Occhio di un Bacco”).
• Title from Plotinus, Enneads (V, 8).
| • | Giulio Paolini. Del bello intelligibile, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1978, repr. pp. 21-22 (titled “Étude tirée des illustrations originales des ‘Écrits sur l’art antique’ de Johann J. Winckelmann”). |
| • | Studio Marconi, no. 8-9 (Milan), 1 February, 1979, repr. p. 59. |
| • | Paul Maenz Köln 1970-1980. Der blick zurück ist ein Blick auf die Gegenwart und/oder Die Wahrheit hat viele Brüste, (Cologne: Galerie Paul Maenz, 1981), repr. on cover (on red background). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Del bello intelligibile, exhibition catalogue, Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1982, repr. p. 98 (titled “Studie aus den Originalillustrationen der ‘Schriften über die antike Kunst’ von Johann J. Winckelmann”). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, vol. Images/Index (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), repr. pp. 92-93. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 4, repr. p. 38 (titled “Studio per ‘Del bello intelligibile’: dalle illustrazioni per gli ‘Scritti sull’arte antica’ di Johann J. Winckelmann" and erroneously dated “1978-82”). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Milan-Rome: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore - De Luca Edizioni d’Arte, 1988), repr. n. pag. |
| • | Metafore. Gianni Kounellis e Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Galleria dell’Oca, 1991, repr. n. pag. |
Entry by Ilaria Bernardi and Maddalena Disch, 10/06/2026
