Carlo Bertelli

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Carlo Bertelli (born August 6, 1930 in Rome ) is an Italian art historian and museum director.

He was director of the Milan Brera , soprintendente of the art goods for Milan and western Lombardy, employee of the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro in Rome, professor of art history at the University of Lausanne and at the architecture academy of the University of Italian Switzerland in Mendrisio .

life and work

Carlo Bertelli studied in Rome, where he obtained his doctorate, and deepened his studies at the Warburg Institute in London. His teachers included Pietro Toesca , Otto Pächt and Richard Krautheimer . From 1956 to 1977 he was editor of the Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale . In 1958 he became an inspector at the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in the ministero per i beni e le attività culturali (Ministry of Culture), and in the same year he married the daughter of one of his teachers: Ilaria Toesca , an art historian she too. They have a son and a daughter, and in 1973 they separated. He later got to know the art historian and documentary filmmaker Anna Zanoli, with whom he lived and whom he advised on important Renaissance artists and important restorations on her productions.

From 1963 to 1973 Bertelli was director of the Gabinetto Fotografico Nazionale (National Photo Cabinet). In 1973 he took over the management of the Calcografia Nazionale (National Cabinet of Prints and Drawings ), which in 1975 was merged with the Gabinetto nazionale delle stampe (National Printing Cabinet) to form the Istituto nazionale per la grafica (National Institute for Graphics).

In 1977 he was appointed director of the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. He partially rearranged the collections, opened the museum for the first time in its history of modernism and contemporary art, and carried out extensive innovations and expansions. The Brera was the first Italian museum to set up a bookshop and cafeteria. With the foundation of Emilio and Maria Jesi, the museum took over 12 sculptures and 68 paintings by artists of the early 20th century, including works by Umberto Boccioni , Carlo Carrà , Pierre Bonnard and Georges Braque , which are shown today in room 10. The permanent loans of exemplary pictures of Futurism from the Riccardo and Maria Jucker Collection were gradually bought by the city of Milan for the Brera. His successor as museum director was Rosalba Tardito in 1984.

From 1978 to 1984 he worked in the double function of director of the art gallery and soprintendente per i Beni Artistici e Storici in Milan, responsible for the provinces of Milan, Sondrio, Bergamo, Como, Varese, Pavia and Brescia. In this function he was jointly responsible for the last restoration of Leonardo's Last Supper in the church of S. Maria delle Grazie in Milan. He critically accompanied the work of the restorer Giuseppina Barcilon Brambilla and documented the restoration in a book. After the end of his official career in the service of the Italian state, he accepted a professorship for art history in Lausanne, after which he taught at the Architecture Academy of Italian-speaking Switzerland in Mendrisio.

Bertelli gave guest lectures at universities in Berlin, Geneva, Berkeley and Venice; He held the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1999 and was visiting professor at the Institute for Byzantine Studies at Harvard University . He is a member of the Accademia di San Luca , the Ateneo di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Brescia and the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • La Madonna di Santa Maria in Trastevere . Rome 1961.
  • Miniatura Medievale . 2 volumes. Fabbri, Milan 1966.
  • Restoration Reveals the Last Supper. National Geographic Society, Washington 1983.
  • Piero Della Francesca . Yale Univ. Press, London 1992, ISBN 0-300-05703-2 .
German edition: Piero Della Francesca. Life and work of the master of the early Renaissance . DuMont, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7701-3058-8 .
  • The mosaics from ancient times to the present. A manual of musical art from the beginning to the present. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-485-5 .
  • Lombardia medievale. Arte e architettura . Skira, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-8491-300-4 .
  • Intermezzi Veneziani. Skira, Milan 2005.
  • The Artistic Culture between the Wars 1920-1945. Rizzoli, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-7624-804-7 .
  • With Antonio Paolucci: Piero della Francesca e le corti Italiane. Skira, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-6130-136-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Brera Gallery
  2. ^ AW Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts