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Valerio Terraroli
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Valerio Terraroli is an Italian art historian and professor of contemporary art at the University of Verona.
Quotes
Symbolism is not a style, but a psychological state that becomes image.
Valerio Terraroli, in Art Nouveau. The European Dream, Skira, 2005.
Filippini’s painting, suspended between natural observation and ethical structure, anticipates the spiritual weight of twentieth-century realism.
Valerio Terraroli (ed.), in Francesco Filippini. Catalogo generale delle opere, Skira, 1999.
Liberty is not the Italian version of Art Nouveau, but its Mediterranean alternative, rooted in myth, narrative, and craftsmanship.
Valerio Terraroli, in Liberty. A European Art, Skira, 2006.
To understand the Symbolists, one must unlearn realism. Their logic is dreamlike, not descriptive.
Valerio Terraroli, in Simbolismo, Giunti, 2007.
See also
Francesco Filippini
Umberto Boccioni
Symbolism (arts)
Art Nouveau
Italian painting
Category:Italian art historians
Category:Living people
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