On Tuesday, December 9th, at 6:00 p.m., in the "Vincenzo Da Massa Carrara" conference room at Via San Micheletto 3, Lucca, the Ragghianti Foundation - ETS presents the book "Morandi Alive. Life and Thought of an Artist" (recently published by Gli Ori) by Marilena Pasquali.

The free event will feature the author, art historian Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, former director of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, and Mattia Patti, professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Pisa. Paolo Bolpagni, director of the Ragghianti Foundation, will introduce and moderate the event.

The book arose from the need to reveal the true Morandi to the public, beyond the clichés and legends that portray him as an isolated individual, obsessed with bottles, or reduced to a pop icon. The aim was to paint the most complete and accurate portrait possible of the man and the artist, based on the certainties that can only emerge from the study of original documents. Marilena Pasquali, founder and president of the Giorgio Morandi Study Center and chair of the Morandi Catalogue Committee, and one of the world's leading experts on the artist, responded to this need by publishing a true biography, the fruit of an in-depth study of original documents relating to Morandi's life, from around 1910 until his death in 1964. IN ITALIAN MORE INFO