# Carlo Belli > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Carlo_Belli > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Carlo_Belli.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Belli > Source revision: 1301026200 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Italian art critic, theorist, and writer}} '''Carlo Belli''' (Rovereto, Italy December 6, 1903 – Rome, Italy March 16, 1991) was an Italian art critic, theorist, and writer. == Life == Carlo Belli was born in the city of [Rovereto](/source/Rovereto) on December 6, 1903 to Arturo Belli, a bank worker who had a passion for music, and Luigia Fait Belli.{{Cite web|title=Carlo Belli {{!}} Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto|url=https://www.fondazionemcr.it/context.jsp?ID_LINK=114504&area=279|access-date=2021-06-21|website=www.fondazionemcr.it}} Now a part of [Italy](/source/Italy), in the north eastern region of [Trentino–Alto Adige](/source/Trentino-Alto_Adige%2FS%C3%BCdtirol), the city was part of [Austria](/source/Austria) when Belli was born (before [WWI](/source/World_War_I) ).{{Cite web|title=Rovereto {{!}} Italy|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Rovereto|access-date=2021-06-21|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}} Belli's uncle (on his mother's side) was sculptor Carlo Fait and his cousin (on his mother's side) was [Fausto Melotti](/source/Fausto_Melotti).{{Cite web|title=Carlo Belli - Biografia|url=https://www.fondazionemcr.it/belli_context.jsp?ID_LINK=113403&area=259|access-date=2021-06-21|website=www.fondazionemcr.it}} During WWI, Belli went with Melotti and his parents to [Florence](/source/Florence) until 1919, when he returned to Rovereto to finish his schooling. Belli died in Rome on March 16, 1991.{{Cite web|title=Catalogo Integrato del Mart|url=http://cim.mart.tn.it/cim/pages/soggetto.jsp?authid=4&aid=224|access-date=2021-07-07|website=cim.mart.tn.it}} == Work == Belli was an Italian intellectual who wrote about art, music, architecture, archaeology, and politics.{{Cite web|title=Carlo Belli - Dalla Capitale a Rovereto: vicende d'archivio|url=https://www.fondazionemcr.it/belli_context.jsp?ID_LINK=114082&area=260|access-date=2021-06-21|website=www.fondazionemcr.it}} He also made a number of drawings and collages throughout his career.{{Cite web|title=Carlo Belli {{!}} Artnet|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/carlo-belli/|access-date=2021-07-07|website=www.artnet.com}} In Rovereto after WWI, Belli met Futurist artists like [Fortunato Depero](/source/Fortunato_Depero). Throughout the 1920s, Belli published on art and literature in regional and national publications.{{Cite web|last=|title=Carlo Belli: Artist biography|url=https://www.artland.com/artists/carlo-belli|access-date=2021-07-07|website=www.artland.com}} Belli traveled to Berlin with architect [Luciano Baldessari](/source/Luciano_Baldessari) in 1924 where he began to formulate his ideas about art that would culminate in his publication of ''Kn'' in 1935. In 1925, he traveled to the [Bauhaus](/source/Bauhaus) in Dessau where he first met [Kandinskij](/source/Wassily_Kandinsky).{{Cite book|last=Boschiero|first=Nicoletta|title=Carlo Belli: la vita, in Il mondo di Carlo Belli. Italia anni Trenta: la cultura artistica|publisher=Electa|year=1991|location=Milan|pages=196}} He became a member of the [Fascist Party](/source/National_Fascist_Party) in 1928 and was given the official designation of art critic for the [Brenner](/source/Brenner%2C_South_Tyrol) region. Moving to [Brescia](/source/Brescia), outside Milan, that same year, he gained the position of art critical at the newspaper "Il Popolo di Brescia". In 1932, he began his work with the [Galleria il Milione](/source/Galleria_il_Milione) in Milan, which supported the work of abstract artists. Milione published the first edition of ''Kn.'' In 1934, Belli moved to Rome to document the artistic happenings and trends. Belli visited Paris in 1937, just before WWII broke out. He traveled with the [Ghiringhelli](/source/Peppino_Ghiringhelli) brothers (they owned Il Milione), the architect [Alberto Sartoris](/source/Alberto_Sartoris), and [Melotti](/source/Fausto_Melotti). In Paris, they met with [Kandinskiy](/source/Wassily_Kandinsky). He returned to Rome in 1939, but left again in 1942 because of [WWII](/source/World_War_II).{{Cite web|title=Catalogo Integrato del Mart|url=http://cim.mart.tn.it/cim/pages/archivio.jsp?aid=224|access-date=2021-07-07|website=cim.mart.tn.it}} After WWII, he continue to publish, working for papers like "Il Giornale" and "Il Tempo". In 1998, an exhibition was held to investigate his impact on the arts culture in Rome at the [Palazzo delle esposizioni](/source/Palazzo_delle_Esposizioni).{{Cite web|title=Carlo Belli e Roma|url=https://library.nga.gov/discovery/fulldisplay/alma991458863504896/01NGA_INST:NGA|access-date=2021-07-07|website=library.nga.gov|language=en}} His archive is now house at the [Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto](/source/Museum_of_Modern_and_Contemporary_Art_of_Trento_and_Rovereto) within the Archivio dell'900 (or 20th century archive).{{Cite web|title=Archivio del '900|url=http://www.mart.trento.it/fondi|access-date=2021-07-07|website=www.mart.trento.it|language=it}}{{Cite web|title=Carlo Belli|url=https://www.museocivico.rovereto.tn.it/belli_home.jsp?ID_LINK=113910&area=285}} == Publications == * ''Kn''. Milan: Edizioni del Milione. 1935 (reprinted: 1972 & 88 Vanni Scheiwiller{{Cite book|last=Belli|first=Carlo|title=Kn|date=1972|publisher=V. Scheiwiller|location=Milan|language=Italian|oclc=502024410}}{{Cite web|title=Kn by Belli Carlo, Used - AbeBooks|url=https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/kn/author/belli-carlo/used/|access-date=2021-06-21|website=www.abebooks.com|language=en}} & 2006 Nayelli Zabaleta Solís{{Cite book|last1=Belli|first1=Carlo|title=Kn|last2=Zabaleta Solís|first2=Nayelli|date=2009|publisher=Taller ditoria Consejo nacional para la cultura y las artes.|isbn=978-607-00-1810-7|location=Ciudad de México|language=Spanish|oclc=883526047}} & 2016 Giometti & Antonello{{Cite book|last=Belli|first=Carlo|title=Kn|date=2016|publisher=Giometti & Antonello |isbn=978-88-98820-05-4|language=Italian|oclc=950465527}}) * {{cite book |title=L'angelo in borghese. Saggio sopra un ignoto contemporaneo |location=Milan |language=Italian |oclc=18197729 |publisher=Libri Scheiwiller |year=1937 |isbn=9788876440427}} * {{cite book |title=Aurora all'Ovest |location=Roma |language=Italian |oclc=797703454 |publisher=Rettangolo d'oro |year=1944}} * {{cite book |title=Anime sbagliate |location=Roma |via=Casini |year=1951}} * {{cite book |title=Enigma o crepuscolo|location=Roma|via=G. Volpe|year=1968}} * {{cite book |title=Il tesoro di Taras|location=Milano; Roma|via=Bestetti|year=1970}} * {{cite book |title=Lettera sulla nascita dell'astrattismo in Italia|location=Milano|via=All'insegna del pesce d'oro|year=1978}} * {{cite book |title=Il cielo nei templi. Scorribande nella Sicilia meridionale|via=Edizioni della Cometa|year=1982}} * {{cite book |title=Altare deserto. Breve storia di un grande sfacelo|location=Roma|via=G. Volpe|year=1983}} * {{cite book |title=Passeggiate in Magna Grecia. Rive del Sud e Costa Viola|location=Roma|via=Edizioni della Cometa|year=1985}} * {{cite book |title=Morte di Giove. Cronaca di una processione romana nei primi secoli della nostra era|location=Roma|via=Editrice Roma Amor|year=1987}} * {{cite book |title=I quaderni de La Sarraz|location=Roma|via=Edizioni della Cometa|year=1988}} * {{cite book |title=Il volto del Secolo. La prima cellula dell'architettura razionalista italiana|location=Bergamo|via=Lubrina|year=1988}} * {{cite book |title=Giro lungo per la Lucania|location=Roma|via=Edizioni della Cometa|year=1989}} * {{cite book |title=Savinio, dioscuro oscuro|location=Roma|via=Edizioni della Cometa|year=1990}} * {{cite book |title=Interlògo. Cultura italiana tra le due guerre|location=Milano|via=Sapiens|year=1992}} * {{cite book |title=Antipatia per Polibio. Il greco storico della grandezza di Roma|location=Cavallino|via=Capone|year=1992}} * {{cite book |title=Echècrate o la prora al cielo. Vita di un filosofo scettico credente|location=Mottola|via=Stampasud|year=1998}} * {{cite book |title=1920–1930: gli anni della formazione|location=Roma|via=Edizioni della Cometa|year=2001}} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * ARCHIVIO CARLO BELLI - http://cim.mart.tn.it/cim/pages/archivio.jsp?aid=224 Category:Italian art critics {{DEFAULTSORT:Belli, Carlo}} Category:1903 births Category:1991 deaths --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Carlo Belli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Belli) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Belli?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.