“If all the world’s cultural heritage was contained in a time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country?”

1. “If all the world’s cultural heritage was contained in a time capsule, what would
you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country?”
IE Business School Express Yourself
IE Application 2016
Antonio Auricchio
02.03.16

2. Each of you probably know something about Italy.
So you won’t see here any pictures of pizza, pasta, spaghetti
and other fancy clichés about my country…
If anything, I took profound inspiration from the great geniuses Italy had
the privilege to be the birthplace of, but, again, I preferred not to talk
about Leonardo, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Dante and other similar fellows,
since their endeavors belong to humankind as a whole.
I gathered here what, in my opinion, has the same strength to not let anyone
walk by without being captured by its beauty. They have only the guilt of
being “lesser” known, and indeed that makes them more intriguing to me.
I strongly hope what I chose to show
will enchant you the same way it enchants me!
Enjoy

3. “ [...] It can be concluded that drawing
is nothing more than a discernible manifestation
and declaration of what is there in our soul […] ”
GIORGIO VASARI, De Pictura
CANVASES
Lorenzo Lotto
“Venere e Cupido”
1540, New York Andrea Mantegna
“Madonna della Tenerezza e bambino sognante”
1491, Padova

4. Cimabue
“Crocifissione del transetto sinistro”
1277-1283, Assisi Masaccio
“Crocifissione”
1426, Napoli

5. Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio)
“Conversione di Saulo”
1601, Roma
Guido Reni
“Atalanta e Ippomene”
1625, Napoli

6. MARBLES
“You see a block,
think at the figure:
it is kept inside
you only have to undress it”
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Detail of “Ratto di Proserpina”
1621, Roma
Antonio Canova
Detail of “Le Tre Grazie”
1816, San Pietroburgo

7. Benvenuto Cellini
Detail of “Perseo con la
Testa di Medusa”
1554, Firenze
Alberto Giacometti
Detail of “L’Homme
au Doigt”
1947

8. MUSIC
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Fabrizio De André
“Anime Salve”
1996
Giorgio Gaber
“Il Signor G”
1970

9. Mina
“Piccolino”
2011 Giovanni Verdi
“La Forza del Destino”
1862

10. PICTURES
“If through the viewfinder you see the person, let her go.
It’s her thought that has to be portrayed.”
UNKNOWN
Mario Giacomelli
“Je n'ai pas de mains qui me caressent le visage”
1962
Piergiorgio Branzi
“Ragazzo con Orologio”
1955

11. Tina Modotti
“Manos con Tìteres”
1929
Gianni Berengo Gardin
“No Name”
1968

12. WRITINGS
“ […] Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no
one yet knows what it will be. […]”
ITALO CALVINO
Carlo Emilio Gadda
“Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana”
1957
Eugenio Montale
“Ossi di Seppia”
1925

13. Luigi Pirandello
“Uno, nessuno e centomila”
1926
Giovanni Verga
“I Malavoglia”
1881

14. CINEMA
“A Film is a Petrified Fountain of Thought.”
JEAN COCTEAU
Sergio Leone - Director
“Per un Pugno di Dollari”
1964
Vittorio De Sica - Director
“Ladri di Biciclette”
1948

15. Toni Servillo - Actor
“Le Conseguenze dell’Amore”
2004
Vittorio Gassman - Actor
“Il Sorpasso”
1962

16. It’s just a hint of what the Italian heritage contains;
nevertheless, I trust you got a good impression about
its essence.
Thank you for your attention.
Hope to join you in Madrid!