Urbinate engraving Museum

The one outlined for top clues in the clear environments of the former Collegio Raffaello is the story of the twentieth-century urbined engraving. The "School of the Book", from which the most famous engravers of the Art Nouveau period begin to emerge, makes Urbino a tyra center that is the most important of a formal, but also technical, development of the second non-national and European perspective. Already in the second half of the 1920s, illustrations of "art books" drawn by master (on stone, slab and wood) by Aleandro Terzi, Francesco Carnevali, Bruno da Osimo and many others, crossed with various outcomes the neo-Gothic utopias of Viollet-Le-Duc, the teachings of William Morris, the poetics of the Secession, and the tension of a revaluation of national traditions that expressed particularly in Urbino by Adolfo De Carolis, the highest interpreter of an image that is found in the work of D'Annunzio in literature.
Around 1950 there was a real upswing in the cultural address of the "School of the Book" by a group of young people, including Arnaldo Battistoni, Walter Piacesi, Renato Bruscaglia, Nunzio Gulino, Giorgio Bompadre and Enrico Ricci who refused decorative principles and the assumption of engraving as an illustration to seek, in a more personal touch with the reality of nature and art, the inspirational motives of their work. At xylography and lithography it preferred the calcic techniques (primarily the etching) that obeyed the same tonal logic of their paintings and watercolors.
The process was certainly favored by the singular figurative research of Carlo Ceci and Dante Panni, by Pietro Sanchini and Umberto Franci, but above all by the commitment of Leonardo Castellani who taught "Book School" for almost forty years. In fact, the greatest contribution to the fortune of the water was given by the very high results to which the master urbined came, as evidenced by the rich donation kept in the present Inquisition Museum. In vitreous spaces, Castellani suspends his lyrical traces, without repeating Moranti's metaphysical astonishment but suggesting the mystery of life in transparency and balance.