Luigi Ficacci
Luigi Ficacci (born January 6, 1954 in Rome ) is an Italian art historian .
Luigi Ficacci studied art history at the University of Rome , where Giulio Carlo Argan was his main academic teacher. After graduating, he was a curator at the Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome. He later became superintendent for the cultural assets of the province of Lucca . The specialist in the arts of the 17th and 18th centuries and for comparative Italian art taught at several Italian universities. He wrote an important work on the painter Francis Bacon and published the complete works of the copperplate engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesis . Since August 20, 2018 he has been Director of the ISCR in Rome. He is married to the art historian Anna Coliva .
Fonts
- Claude Mellan, gli anni romani. Un incisore tra Vouet e Bernini , Rome 1989 ISBN 88-7597-108-0
- The complete etchings = complete catalog of copper engravings , bags, Cologne a. a. 2000 ISBN 3-8228-6620-2
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Selected etchings , Taschen, Cologne a. a. 2001 ISBN 3-8228-5530-8
- Francis Bacon. 1909 - 1992 , Taschen, Cologne a. a. 2003 ISBN 3-8228-2197-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Luigi Ficacci in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Ficacci, Luigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |