Salvatore Settis

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Salvatore Settis

Salvatore Settis (born June 11, 1941 in Rosarno , Reggio Calabria Province , Calabria ) is an Italian classical archaeologist and art historian .

Life

Salvatore Settis studied Classical Archeology at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa with Paolo Enrico Arias , Silvio Ferri and Donato Morelli and received the Laureate from the University of Pisa in 1963, and in 1965 he received his doctorate from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa ( Diploma di perfezionato ). In 1968 Settis became an assistant at the University of Pisa, in 1969 he became an associate professor there. From 1976 to 1985 Settis taught as a full professor of Greek and Roman archeology at the University of Pisa. From 1977 he also taught the history of classical archeology as an associate professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, to which he moved in 1985 as a full professor of classical archeology. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the Getty Center for History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles . From 1999 until his retirement in 2010 he was director of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

Settis is an opponent of the “sell-off of the cultural assets of Italy” and for many years opposed the cultural policy of Silvio Berlusconi and his ministers , also in newspaper articles such as La Repubblica and Il Sole 24 Ore .

Researches

The main areas of research of Salvatore Settis are in the areas of Greek and Roman art.

Giorgione The Thunderstorm , 1505, Accademia, Venice

He became known to a wider audience early on through his studies on the painter Giorgione (1478-1510) and his painting Das Gewitter , which he received in the 1975/76 winter semester as a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Classical Archeology and Art History University of Bonn carried out. Settis completed the manuscript in the summer of 1976 in London at the Warburg Institute . In 1978, five hundred years after Giorgione's birth, it was published by Einaudi under the title La 'tempesta' interpretata. Giorgione. I committenti il ​​soggetto .

In 2015, the Fondazione Prada showed the polychrome reconstructed statue Riace B as part of the Serial Classic exhibition curated by Settis in the foundation's newly opened museum . Based on research by Settis and the German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann, this statue is seen as a representation of the mythical figure of Erechtheus . At the same time, the foundation showed the exhibition of antique sculptures Portable Classic in Venice , which was also curated by Settis.

Honors

Settis is a member of numerous academies and scientific associations, he is a full member of the Academia Europaea , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society , the Académie Royale de Belgique , the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino , the Accademia degli Euteleti in San Miniato, the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and the Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere "La Colombaria" in Florence as well as corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, the Accademia degli Intronati in Siena, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Venice and the German Archaeological Institute . From 2007 to 2011 he was a member of the Science Committee of the European Research Council .

Salvatore Settis has received numerous medals, including Cavaliere di Gran Croce des Ordine al merito della Repubblica italiana , holder of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2002), commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2011) and Knight of the Legion of Honor ( 2012).

In 1978 he received the Premio Viareggio for La 'tempesta' interpretata. Giorgione. I committenti il ​​soggetto.

In 2010/11 he held the "chair" of the Museo del Prado (Cátedra del Museo Nacional del Prado) in Madrid .

In 2014, Settis was awarded an honorary doctorate in architecture from the University of Reggio Calabria .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • Chēlonē. Saggio sul Afrodite Urania di Fida . Nistri-Lischi, Pisa 1966.
  • La 'tempesta' interpretata. Giorgione. I committenti il ​​soggetto. Einaudi, Turin 1978.
  • La colonna Traiana. Einaudi, Turin 1988, ISBN 88-06-59889-9 .
  • Laocoonte. Fama e styles. Donzelli, Rome 1999.
  • Italia SPa - L'assalto al patrimonio culturale. Einaudi, Turin 2002.
  • Il futuro del 'classico'. Einaudi, Turin 2004.
  • Battaglie senza eroi. I beni culturali tra istituzioni e profitto. Electa, Milan 2005.
  • Iconografia dell'arte italiana 1100–1500: una linea. Einaudi, Turin 2005.
  • Artemidoro. Un papiro dal I secolo al XXI. Einaudi, Turin 2008.
  • La villa di Livia. Le pareti ingannevoli. Mondadori Electa, Milan 2008.
  • Artisti e committenti fra Quattrocento al Cinquecento. Einaudi, Turin 2010.
  • Paesaggio Costituzione cemento. La battaglia per l'ambiente contro il degrado civile. Einaudi, Turin 2010.
  • Azione Popolare. Citadini per il bene comune. Einaudi, Turin 2012, ISBN 978-88-06-21293-3 .
  • Se Venezia muore . Einaudi, Turin 2014.
    • When Venice dies: a pamphlet against the sellout of the cities . Translation of Victoria Lorini. Wagenbach, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8031-3657-2 .
  • Costituzione! Perché attuarla è meglio che cambiarla . Einaudi, Turin 2016, ISBN 978-88-06-23071-5 .
editor
  • The land of the Etruscans. From prehistory to the early Middle Ages. Scala, Antello / Firenze and Langewiesche, Königstein 1985, ISBN 3-7845-6210-8 .
  • Civiltà dei Romani. Electa, Milan 1990-1993
  • I Greci. Storia, cultura, arte, società. Einaudi, Turin 1996-2002
  • Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana. Einaudi, Turin 2005

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Salvatore Settis: Giorgione's 'Thunderstorm'. Client and hidden subject of a Renaissance painting. Wagenbach, Berlin 1982, p. 7. 194.
  2. ↑ Tell us your name, Krieger in FAZ of May 2, 2015, page 11
  3. ↑ Cátedra del Prado 2010–2011 .
  4. ↑ We children of the Renaissance. In: FAZ of June 6, 2011, p. 32.
  5. ↑ Aglaia Bianchi: on Salvatore Setti's 'When Venice dies'. In: Romance Studies. June 26, 2016, pp. 527-534 , accessed June 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Settis, Salvatore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian archaeologist and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosarno , Reggio Calabria Province , Calabria , Italy