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Cover art: The Castle in the Pyrenees (1961) by Ren\u00e9 Magritte.<\/em><\/p>\n A final post for this week devoted to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities<\/em>, and it occurs to me that “Miscellanea” could easily be the name of one of Marco Polo’s cities.<\/p>\n One thing that’s become apparent over the past few days is that this subject is a very popular one with artists, especially in Italy. This is understandable but it also means you could probably fill another week of posts pursuing further illustrations and homages. Rather than belabour things I’m ending with a few of the more notable derivations including some cover designs. The Einaudi volume above was the first printing in Italy in 1972.<\/p>\n Cover design by Arnold Skolnick.<\/em><\/p>\n And this was the first American edition from Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich in 1974. The cover is printed in silver foil which makes the book a particularly desirable item. This might explain why it’s also rather expensive today.<\/p>\n Cover art:\u00a0Martyrdom of a Saint by Mons\u00f9 Desiderio.<\/em><\/p>\n The 1979 Picador edition is one of two paperback editions I own. The enigmatic “Mons\u00f9 Desiderio” has a confused identity (see this post<\/a>), and specialised in curious architectural paintings so this is an apt choice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cities and Memory 5: Maurilia by Matteo Menotto.<\/em><\/p>\n Yet more contemporary interpretations. Matteo Menotto’s piece is one of a series of silhouetted artworks from 2011. The artist discusses his work (in Italian) here<\/a>. Gabriele Genini’s linocut was part of a group exhibition in Florence in 2013. Works by some of the other artists may be seen here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cities and Eyes 1: Valdrada by Gabriele Genini.<\/em><\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Previously on { feuilleton } Cover art: The Castle in the Pyrenees (1961) by Ren\u00e9 Magritte. A final post for this week devoted to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and it occurs to me that “Miscellanea” could easily be the name of one of Marco Polo’s cities. One thing that’s become apparent over the past few days is that this subject … Continue reading “Invisible Cities: Miscellanea”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,30,42,51,4,21,44],"tags":[335,7441,407,7440,3787,115],"class_list":["post-16978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-cities","category-design","category-fantasy","category-painting","tag-arnold-skolnick","tag-gabriele-genini","tag-italo-calvino","tag-matteo-menotto","tag-monsu-desiderio","tag-magritte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4pQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"cities03.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cities03.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Seeing Calvino: Invisible Cities<\/a>
\n\u2022 G\u00e9rard Trignac\u2019s Invisible Cities<\/a>
\n\u2022 Colleen Corradi Brannigan\u2019s Invisible Cities<\/a>
\n\u2022 Le Citt\u00e0 In\/visibili<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mikhail Viesel\u2019s Invisible Cities<\/a>
\n\u2022 Bookmark: Italo Calvino<\/a>
\n\u2022 Crossed destinies revisted<\/a>
\n\u2022 Crossed destinies: when the Quays met Calvino<\/a>
\n\u2022 Tressants: the Calvino Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"