Pietro Toesca

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Giovanni Pietro Toesca (born July 12, 1877 in Pietra Ligure , Savona Province , Liguria , Italy, † March 9, 1962 in Rome ) was an Italian art historian .

Life

Toesca attended the Liceo and University in Turin , where he received his doctorate in 1898 under Arturo Graf and Rodolfo Renier . After studying with Adolfo Venturi in Rome, he began his career in 1905 as a lecturer in Milan at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria di Milano . In 1907 he was appointed to the newly created Chair of Art History at the University of Turin . In 1914 he went to Florence and in 1926 to Rome, where he ended his work as a university professor in 1948.

Toesca was director of the history department of medieval and modern art at the Enciclopedia Italiana from 1929 to 1937. In 1925 he became a corresponding member of the Roman Accademia dei Lincei , and in 1946 socio nazionale . From 1952 he was a corresponding member of the British Academy .

His daughter Ilaria is also an art historian.

Work and effect

Toesca was one of the most important Italian art historians of the 20th century. With his work La pittura e la miniatura nella Lombardia fino alla metà del Quattrocento (Painting and miniatures in Lombardy up to the middle of the fifteenth century) , he made the visual arts of Lombardy of the Middle Ages and their significance for the art of the across Europe again consciously.

Works

  • La pittura e la miniatura nella Lombardia fino alla metà del Quattrocento , 1912.
    • New edition with a slightly different title: Einaudi, Turin 1966.
  • Affreschi decorativi in ​​Italia fino al secolo XIX . U. Hoepli, Milan 1917
  • Storia dell'arte Italiana I, Il Medioevo , 1913–1927, new edition: Turin 1951.
  • Monumenti e studi per la storia della miniatura italiana, I , 1929.
  • La pittura fiorentina del Trecento , 1923.
    • German: The Florentine painting of the 14th century . Pantheon Edition, Kurt Wagner, Munich 1929.
  • Gli affreschi della vita di San Francesco nella chiesa superiore del santuario di Assisi , Bencini & Sonsoni, Florence 1947?
  • Storia dell'arte italiana, II, Il Trecento , 1951.
  • The mosaics of San Marco , Würzburg / Vienna 1957.
Posthumously
  • with an introduction by Ilaria Toesca: Italian miniatures from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini , Venice 1977, Pozza, Vicenza 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corresponds to the upper level of high school in Italian
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed August 8, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Toesca, Pietro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toesca, Giovanni Pietro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Pietra Ligure , Savona Province , Liguria , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1962
Place of death Rome , Italy