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Safarik, Eduard A.
Eduard Alexandr Safarik (Šafařík) (19 May 1928 – 15 August 2015)Czech National Authority Database
was an Italian art historian of Czech people, Czech descent. He focused on Italian art, especially Venetian paintings of the 16th and 17th century, and Jan Kupecký. He authored several monographs and many articles, catalogues and encyclopedic entries.


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In the 1950s Safarik was the director of the pinacotheca of Kroměříž Archbishop's Palace, where he discovered several masterpieces, including a painting by Paolo Veronese. In 1957–1968 he worked in the National Gallery in Prague, and after that in Bibliotheca Hertziana and Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome. In 1971 Safarik became the dire ...
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The Czechs ( cs, Češi, ; singular Czech, masculine: ''Čech'' , singular feminine: ''Češka'' ), or the Czech people (), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language. Ethnic Czechs were called Bohemians in English until the early 20th century, referring to the former name of their country, Bohemia, which in turn was adapted from the late Iron Age tribe of Celtic Boii. During the Migration Period, West Slavic tribes settled in the area, "assimilated the remaining Celtic and Germanic populations", and formed a principality in the 9th century, which was initially part of Great Moravia, in form of Duchy of Bohemia and later Kingdom of Bohemia, the predecessors of the modern republic. The Czech diaspora is found in notable numbers in the United States, Canada, Israel, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Rus ...
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