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Wart Arslan (actually Jetwart Arslan ), also Edoardo Arslan , (born October 3, 1899 in Padua , † July 10, 1968 in Milan ) was an Italian art historian .
life and work
His family came from Armenia , his father Yerwant Arslan (1865-1948) came to Italy as a teenager and became a well-known ear, nose and throat doctor there. Wart, too, was initially to study medicine at the University of Padua , but switched to art history, which he studied with Giuseppe Fiocco and graduated with a laureate in 1925 . He then continued his training at the Scuola di specializzazione in storia dell'arte in Rome with Adolfo Venturi . He joined the state cultural administration and in 1928 worked for the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna , and in 1933 director of the Museo Civico in Bolzano . In 1939 he became professor of art history at the University of Cagliari and in 1942 he moved to the University of Pavia , where he taught until his death.
His specialty was the art of Veneto and Lombardy , especially the architecture of the Middle Ages , but also the painting of the Renaissance and the 17th century.
His son is the numismatist Ermanno A. Arslan (* 1940).
Publications (selection)
- I Bassano. Apollo, Bologna 1931.
- L'architettura romanica veronese. La Tipografica veronese, Verona 1939.
- Il Museo dell'Alto Adige a Bolzano (= Itinerari dei musei e monumenti d'Italia. Volume 77). Libreria dello Stato, Rome 1942.
- La pittura e la scultura veronese dal secolo VIII al secolo XIII. Con un'appendice sull'architettura romanica veronese. Bocca, Milan 1943.
- Architettura romanica milanese. In: Storia di Milano. Volume 3, 3, 1954.
- I Bassano. Ceschina, Milan 1960.
- Venezia gotica. L'architettura civile gotica veneziana. Electa, Milan 1970.
literature
- Arte in Europe. Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Edoardo Arslan. Tipografia Artipo, Milan 1966.
- Yetwart Arslan. Una scuola di storici dell'arte. Atti della giornata di studi; Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphaël, Venezia, 25 March 1983. Accademia Armena di San Lazzaro dei Padri Mechitaristi, Venice; Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena, Milan 1985.
- Rosanna Ruscio (Ed.): Lettere a Wart. Il fondo Arslan. Studi e percorsi di uno storico dell'arte. Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medievo, Spoleto 2005, ISBN 88-7988-336-4 .
Web links
- Arslan Wart Edoardo in the Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche
- Publications by and about Wart Arslan in Kubikat (joint library catalog of the German university- independent art historical research institutes)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Arslan, wait |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arslan, Wart; Arslan, Edoardo; Arslan, Wart Edoardo; Arslan, jet warden |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian art historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Padua |
DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1968 |
Place of death | Milan |