Studio per “Osservatorio”, 1988
GPC-0989
Study for “Osservatorio”
Collage on photo print
60 x 94 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper left: “Giulio Paolini / Studio per / “Osservatorio” / 1988”
Private collection, Turin
• Diagram of the formation of an image on the retina: Frans van Schooten, plate for Descartes’ treatise titled Dioptrique (Leiden: 1637); reproduction from Franco Rella, “Immagini e figure del pensiero”, in Rassegna 9 (Milan: Electa, 1982).
• Eye: engraving portraying the interior of the theatre at Besançon designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux; reproduction from Claude Nicolas Ledoux, L’Architecture 2 (Paris: 1804), p. 113.
- Cleomenes son of Apollodorus, Medici Venus, late 1st century BC, marble, h 153 cm, Le Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 327, fig. 173 (“Venus de’ Medici”).
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Milan- Rome: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore - De Luca Edizioni d’Arte, 1988), repr. n. pag. |
| • | J. Lageira, “Giulio Paolini. Ut pictura poesis”, in Id., Regard oblique. Essais sur la perception (Brussels: La Lettre volée, 2013), pp. 111-112, not repr. |
