Background
ARGAN, Giulio was born on May 17, 1909 in Turin. Son of Valerio and Libera Roncaroli.
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ARGAN, Giulio was born on May 17, 1909 in Turin. Son of Valerio and Libera Roncaroli.
University of Turin.
In 1928 he entered the National Fascist Party. In the 1930 he worked for the National Antiquity and Arts Directorate, first in Turin and then in Modena and Rome, where he collaborated to the creation of the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro and directed the magazine Le Arti. In 1938 he published a manual of art for high schools, while in the 1940s he collaborated to the magazine Primato, founded and directed by Giuseppe Bottai, another Fascist gerarca.
After World World War II, he taught in universities Palermo and, from 1959, in Rome.
In 1968 he published his most famous work, Storia dell"Arte Italiana. In 1973 he founded Rome ISIA, Italy"s oldest institution in the field of industrial design.
He was the first Communist mayor of Rome, between 1976 and 1979. He died in Rome.
(Nesta brilhante coletânea de artigos, o autor de Arte mod...)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
Argan co-founded the publisher Il Saggiatore and he was a member of the Superior Council of Antiquities and Fine Arts (predecessor of the Ministry of Culture), in which he remained until 1974.
Married Anna Maria Mazzucchelli in 1939.
