Finding Aid for the Giorgio Nicodemi Papers LSC.0009
Finding aid prepared by Yana Demeshko, 2020.
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Title: Giorgio Nicodemi papers
Creator:
Nicodemi, Giorgio, 1891-1967
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0009
Physical Description:
11.2 linear feet
(28 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1884-1952
Abstract: This archive consists of Professor Giorgio Nicodemi's working files of readings (preprints, printed lectures, honorary essays,
etc.); photographs of artists' works (most annotated by Nicodemi); clippings; notes; small books and more ephemeral publications;
and a few letters and other correspondence, often tipped into relevant publications.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are primarily in English, some materials in Italian, German, and Polish.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Nicodemi Estate, circa 1968.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Giorgio Nicodemi papers (Collection 9). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processing Information
Online finding aid created from paper register by Yana Demeshko, under the supervision of Courtney Dean, 2020.
When Nicodemi died, his collection of books and working files of readings and photographs were donated to the UCLA Art Library.
Through the years, these materials went through various reviews. Decisions were made to add books to the appropriate campus
collections, and the readings/photographs files were stored in the Belt Cage. At one point, Getty Photo Archivists were invited
to take those Nicodemi photographs appropriate for their collection; Nicodemi's notes attached to these photographs were left
behind and were stored with the remaining materials, which were taken out of their highly-acidic envelope folders and stored
on Belt Cage shelves. And finally, they were placed in document boxes in the same order in which they were found.
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Biographical / Historical
Giorgio Nicodemi was an Italian museologist, essayist and art historian. He was born in Trieste on May, 29 1891 and dided
in Milan on June 9, 1967. In 1919, he became a director of the Civici Musei of Brescia and of the Biblioteca Queriniana, where
Nicodemi remained until 1928. In 1928, he became a director of the Civici Musei of Milan, including museums of the Castello
Sforzesco. From 1928 until 1938, Nicodemi also taught art history at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Scope amd Content
This archive consists of Professor Giorgio Nicodemi's working files of readings (preprints, printed lectures, honorary essays,
etc.); photographs of artists' works (most annotated by Nicodemi); clippings; notes; small books and more ephemeral publications;
and a few letters and other correspondence, often tipped into relevant publications.
Organization and Arrangement
Materials retain their existing order. The character of these materials (often annotated by Nicodemi) tells us that Nicodemi
must have filed them in alphabetical order by author/scholar and, in the case of the photographs, by artist.
Separated Materials
At an unknown date, Getty Photo Archivists were invited to take those Nicodemi photographs appropriate for their collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Nicodemi, Giorgio, 1891-1967 -- Archives
box 1, box 2, box 3, box 4, box 5
Miscellanea: preprints of articles
undated
Scope and Contents
This includes preprints of articles were for the most part published in the first quarter of this century in the field of
Italian Renaissance art history (several in other areas of study).
box 6
Miscellanea: preprints, single issues of scholarly and popular journals, assorted plates and prints, bound issues of BOLLETTINO
DEL COMUNE DI NAPOLI
1916
Language of Material: Some materials are in Italian.
box 7
Miscellanea: preprints, printed lectures, honorary publications, copies of journals
1925 November 29, Summer 1959
Language of Material: Some materials are in Italian.
Scope and Contents
Includes an unbound copy of
Corso Elementare Di Ornamenti Architettonici Del Professore Domenico Moglia,
PartePrima (Milano 1842), Frederick Hartt review of
Leonardo's Trattato (McMahon and Steinitz titles) from
College Art Journal xviii, 4 Summer 1959, Igino Benvenuto Supino's
Leon Battista Alberti E Il Tempio Malatestiano: Memoria presentata alla R. Accademia delle Scienze dell Instituto di Bologna
Classe di Scienze Morali nella Sessions del 29 novembre 1925
.
box 8
Miscellanea: preprints and "Opuscoletti" on various topics
1838-1944
Language of Material: Materials are in Italian, German, Polish, and English.
Scope and Contents
This includes Giuseppe Martinola's honorary essay on
L'Architetto Luigi Fontana Di Muggio (1812-1877) printed in 1944, with tipped in personal letter from author to Nicodemi; and Nicodemi's own writings.
box 9
Miscellanea: preprints
1884-1920s
box 10
Miscellanea: catalogues in honor of various artists (often posthumous), notes and gallery proofs, clippings
1959
Language of Material: Some materials are in Italian.
Scope and Contents
This includes catalogues in honor of Eugenio Spreafico, Enrico Ludolf Verworner, Arturo Tosi, Teofilo Patini, Giovanni Omiccioli,
Sirio Terracuio Magni, Sante Monachesi; notes and gallery proofs on Edouard Vuillard exhibit catalogue (Milano, Palazzo Reale,
1959).
box 11
Miscellanea: handwritten notes, clippings, photographs, correspondence regarding celebrations honoring Leonardo da Vinci on
the fifth centenary of his birth
1952
box 12
Miscellanea: photographs A-D
undated
Scope and Contents
This includes preprint with color plates re: medieval costume.
box 13
Miscellanea: handwritten notes, typed notes, preprints, photographs
undated
box 14
Miscellanea: photographs, single journal issues, portraits
undated
box 15
Miscellanea: photographs, notes, letters
undated
box 16
Miscellanea: photographs
undated
box 17
Miscellanea: photographs, related printed newsletters and typescripts
undated
box 18
Miscellanea: photographs and illustrations, related preprints and extracts, correspondence, notes, typescripts
undated
box 19
Miscellanea: photographs and illustrations, notes, book signatures, news clippings, exhibition catalogues, typescripts, preprints
undated
box 20
Photographs of artists' works
undated
box 21
Photographs of artists' works, exhibition catalogue
undated
box 22
Miscellanea: photographs of artists' works, selected journal issues, preprints, notes
undated
box 23
Miscellanea: photographs and illustrations, notes, clippings
undated
box 24
Miscellanea: photographs, illustrations, clippings, pamphlets, notes, preprints
undated
box 25
Miscellanea: photographs, typescripts, notes, catalogues
undated
box 26
Photographs, illustrations, notes
undated
box 27
Miscellanea: photographs, correspondence, clippings, notes
undated
box 28
Photographs of artists' works
undated
