Deoclecio Redig de Campos

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Deoclecio Redig de Campos (born March 6, 1905 in Belém ; died April 6, 1989 in Rome ) was a Brazilian art historian and museum director at the Vatican .

Life

Deoclecio Redig de Campos was the son of the lawyer and diplomat Deoclecio de Campos, who became the Brazilian consul in Berlin in 1910, and the Zulima Redig, his younger brother was the architect Olavo Redig de Campos (1906-1984). He attended the Hohenzollern-Gymnasium in Berlin and moved with his parents to Bern in 1917 and to Rome in 1918, where he passed the high school diploma at the Lycée Chateaubriand di Roma . He studied art history at La Sapienza University in Rome and received his doctorate (Laurea) with Adolfo Venturi with a thesis on aesthetics with the “fascist” philosopher Giovanni Gentile . He married Virginia Kambo in 1931, with whom he moved into an apartment on the Spanish Steps above Babington's Tea Rooms . From 1933 he worked at the Vatican Museums , from 1935 he headed the Vatican Pinacoteca . In addition to his museum work, he was appointed cultural attaché of the Brazilian embassy to the Holy See, thereby improving his salary and status. In 1964, as a representative of the Vatican, he was one of the signatories of the Charter of Venice .

De Campos was appointed General Director of the Vatican Museums in 1971. Under his aegis, Raphael's rooms were restored and the tituli exposed over the Quattrocento frescos in the Sistine Chapel . He implemented the restoration theories developed by Cesare Brandi , but could not prevent the interventions of the architect Enrico Pietro Galeazzi . During his term of office in 1972, the attack on Michelangelo's Pietà and its restoration fell. His contract as General Manager was renewed every two years until 1978, when he retired.

In 1957 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Fonts (selection)

See Bibliografia di Deoclecio Redig de Campos. In: Bollettino dei Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie 9, 1989, pp. 450–458.

  • I Palazzi Vaticani . Cappelli, Bologna 1967
  • Le stanze di Raffaello .
    • The Raphael Rooms . Translation of Hermine Speier . Del Turco, Rome 1954
    • Raphael's frescoes in the rooms . Translation: Patrizia Möhring, Harald Möhring. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1984
  • (Ed.): The art treasures of the Vatican. Architecture, painting, sculpture . Herder, Freiburg 1974.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Nesselrath: The General Director of the Vatican Museums Deoclecio Redig de Campos , 2015, p. 431.
  2. ^ Arnold Nesselrath: The General Director of the Vatican Museums Deoclecio Redig de Campos , 2015, p. 432.
  3. ^ Arnold Nesselrath: The General Director of the Vatican Museums Deoclecio Redig de Campos , 2015, p. 435.
  4. ^ Arnold Nesselrath: The General Director of the Vatican Museums Deoclecio Redig de Campos , 2015, p. 435.
  5. ^ Arnold Nesselrath: The General Director of the Vatican Museums Deoclecio Redig de Campos , 2015, p. 445.
  6. ^ Deoclecio Redig de Campos: La Pietà di Michelangelo e il suo restauro . In: Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 48, 1975/77, pp. 419-441.
  7. ^ Arnold Nesselrath: The General Director of the Vatican Museums Deoclecio Redig de Campos , 2015, p. 448.
personal data
SURNAME Redig de Campos, Deoclecio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campos, Deoclécio Redig de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian art historian and museum director in the Vatican
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Belém
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1989
Place of death Rome