Prof. Dario Del Bufalo

Review of “Porphyry” by Marco Carminati in the Sunday supplement of the newspaper ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’

The architect has a heart of stone

“Dario Del Bufalo, one of the most important authorities on antique marbles and who now collaborates with curator, Andrea G. De Marchi, on an exhibition on the Santarelli and Zeri stone Collections, has renovated the Castle of Cecchignola to create the headquarters of the Università dei Marmorari: “I began as a child to swap fragments...

Another chance. Ascesa, degrado e nuova vita di un bel castello romano

 …that today is an oasis of greenery and classical culture   “As well as having historical heritage, a castle always carries with it romantic reflections, literary and artistic notions, a patrimony of stories and memories that blend together with a legend or myth…” Download PDF (in italian, 397 Kb)

Dario Del Bufalo, fanatique d’antiques

“Ancient antiquarie devenu spécialiste des marbres, Dario Del Bufalo vit au sud de Rome dans une maison entièrement envahie par des bustes polychromes, des fragments de marbres antiques et des pierres dures. Portrait d’un collectionneur globe-trotter …” Download PDF (820 Kb)

Stories of stone : from Egypt to Ancient Rome , sculptures , fragments , pieces of marble and granite create a precious collection

“… Not only for the beauty, not only for curiosity, … but for the pleasure of placing each piece as a milestone in one’s own memory, one’s own passion for knowledge…” Download PDF (in italian, 1,2 MB)

Rome : l’empire des marbres

“… Rencontre avec Dario Del Bufalo, expert italien mondialement reconnu des marbres antiques  …” Download PDF (in italian, 1,9 MB)

All shades of marble: the classical age to the Grand Tour, the Dario Del Bufalo Collection

“… fragments and low reliefs, samples of precious marbles, eighteenth century archeological Souvenirs from the Grand Tour… a whirl of magnificent names … from the rosso antico to the black and white Aquitaine…”   Download PDF (in italian, 1,5 MB)

Dario Del Bufalo hat sich der restauration alter kunstwerke aus marmor verschrieben

“… marmor ist ein Product der Natur und des kreativsten aller Götter des Univerums, des Chaos. Die Farben und Muster der Marmorarten unseres Planeten sind wahre Meisterwerke der universellen Kunst …” Scarica PDF  (729 Kb)

The “Mile High Illinois” by Frank Lloyd Wright : computer simulation

“...working solely on the computer, checking, pondering over, the most utopian, largest work that perhaps has been seriously designed to date: the mile-high skyscraper by Frank Lloyd Wright ... instead of «playing to be creative with the computer», seeing if the computer stands creativity ...”

The synthetic image . Chronology of a current

“The roots of this art … are to be found in the first post-war experiments made with all types of electronic equipment and with the purpose of generating artificial, synthetic, non-tangible images...”