Michelangelo in Motion: Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti’s Critofilm Michelangiolo (1964)

Abstract

In the years immediately following the SecondWorld War, Italy saw the production of many innovative art documentaries by filmmakers such as Luciano Emmer, Umberto Barbaro, Roberto Longhi, and Glauco Pellegrini. Several of these films were critically acclaimed for their experimental nature in leading film and art journals all over the world. Strikingly, prominent art historians like Roberto Longhi,MatteoMarangoni, Valerio Mariani, and Rodolfo Pallucchini showed great interest in art documentaries and often collaborated with film directors as scholarly advisers and screenwriters. Especially for Italian art historian Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (1910–87), the medium of film not only was capable of