Giuseppe Mazzariol

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Giuseppe Mazzariol (born April 16, 1922 in Venice ; † September 4, 1989 there) was an Italian art historian . He was director of various art institutions in Venice, lecturer at the city's university and author of around 200 publications.

Mazzariol studied at the University of Padua until 1944 and received his doctorate with a thesis on the architecture of San Vitale in Ravenna . From this time he joined a lifelong friendship with Sergio Bettini , who graduated in the same year. Another lasting friendship connected him with Arturo Martini , a sculptor and lecturer at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia . While he found historiographical and aesthetic stimuli in Bettini, he attributed many of his insights into art and art criticism to Martini's influence.

In 1951 Mazzariol became vice director of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia , followed by a diploma in biblioteconomia ( library science ) at the Scuola storico-filologica delle Venezie in 1953 . He worked as an assistant at the Istituto universitario di architettura and focused on modern and contemporary art and architecture. From 1957 to 1974 he was its director, as well as director of the library belonging to it . In 1959 he founded the Corso Superiore di Disegno Industriale with Renzo Camerino , in 1968 Venezia isola degli Studi , in the same year the Consorzio per lo sviluppo economico e sociale della provincia di Venezia and finally the Università Internazionale d'Arte .

From 1972 he taught at the Architecture Institute of the University of Venice, in 1973 he received the chair for contemporary art at the Ca 'Foscari , in 1974 he became director of the Istituto di Discipline Artistiche , in 1976 he was a member of the administrative board of the university, and from 1977 to 1983 head of Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia , finally director of the newly founded Dipartimento di Storia e Critica delle Arti , which today bears his name.

Mazzariol published around 200 works on architecture, urban planning and bibliographies in four decades. He maintained contacts with important architects, such as Frank Lloyd Wright , Le Corbusier , Louis Kahn or Carlo Scarpa , who was also one of his students, like Mario Botta . He supported Le Corbusier's new hospital in San Giobbe in 1964, as well as Kahn's Palazzo dei Congressi from 1968 and Scarpa's expansion of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia. But he was also a sharp critic of hotel buildings such as the Danielino or the Bauer .

In 1989 he received the Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura for his services to culture .

Publications (selection)

  • Pittura italiana contemporanea , Bergamo 1958.
  • with Terisio Pignatti (ed.): Storia dell'arte italiana , 3 vols., Mondadori, 1957 ff.
  • Catalogo del fondo cartografico queriniano , Venice 1959.
  • with Giovanni Mariacher: Da Torcello a Murano , Sansoni, 1969.
  • The Palazzi on the Grand Canal in Venice , Pawlak Verlag, 1989 (Italian 1981).

literature

  • Chiara Bertola, Marta Mazza, Margherita Petranzan (eds.): Giuseppe Mazzariol. Lo spazio dell'arte: scritti critici 1954–1989 ; with an obituary by Giorgio Busetto, 1992.
  • Giorgio Busetto: Giuseppe Mazzariol , in: Profili veneziani del Novecento , Supernova, Venice 2001, pp. 20–55.

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personal data
SURNAME Mazzariol, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian art historian, science organizer, foundation and library director, art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1989
Place of death Venice