Luciano Bellosi (7 July 1936 – 26 April 2011) was an Italian art historian.

Life

He was born and died in Florence, graduating from the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

in 1963 alongside

Roberto Longhi Roberto Longhi (28 December 1890 – 3 June 1970) was an Italian academic, art historian, and curator. The main subjects of his studies were the painters Caravaggio and Piero della Francesca. Early life and career Longhi was born in December 18 ...

with a thesis on

Lorenzo Monaco Lorenzo Monaco (1370 – 1425) was an Italian painter of the late Gothic to early Renaissance age. He was born Piero di Giovanni in Siena, Italy. Little is known about his youth, apart from the fact that he was apprenticed in Florence. He was inf ...

. He worked for the Soprintendenza alle Gallerie di Firenze from 1969 to 1979, before teaching medieval art history at the

University of Siena The University of Siena ( it, Università degli Studi di Siena, abbreviation: UNISI) in Siena, Tuscany, is one of the oldest and first publicly funded universities in Italy. Originally called ''Studium Senese'', the institution was founded in 1240 ...

until retiring in 2002. He took part in several international art history conferences and organised and edited the ''Atti del Convegno internazionale di studio su

Simone Martini Simone Martini ( – 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. It is thought that Martini was a pupil ...

'' held in Siena in 1985.

Works

Studies and essays

*''

Buffalmacco Buonamico di Martino, otherwise known as Buonamico Buffalmacco (active c. 1315–1336), was an Italian Renaissance painter who worked in Florence, Bologna, and Pisa. Although none of his known work has survived, he is widely assumed to be the ...

e il Trionfo della Morte'', Einaudi, Torino 1974;

Premio Viareggio The Viareggio Prize ( it, Premio Viareggio, italic=no or ) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanes ...

Opera Prima di Saggistica, nuova edizione 5 Continents, Milano 2003; *catalogue of Florence's Museo dello

Spedale degli Innocenti The Ospedale degli Innocenti (;) 'Hospital of the Innocents', also known in old Tuscan dialect as the ''Spedale degli Innocenti'', is a historic building in Florence, Italy. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, who received the commission in ...

, Milano 1977; *''La pecora di

Giotto Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto ( , ) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period. Giot ...

'', Einaudi, Torino 1985; *monograph on ''

Cimabue Cimabue (; ; – 1302), Translated with an introduction and notes by J.C. and P Bondanella. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford World’s Classics), 1991, pp. 7–14. . also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter a ...

'', Federico Motta, Milano 1998; *''Come un prato fiorito. Studi sull'arte tardogotica'', Jaca Book, Milano 2000; *''"I vivi parean vivi" : scritti di storia dell'arte italiana del Duecento e del Trecento'', Centro Di, Firenze 2006.

Exhibitions

He organised the following exhibitions and edited their catalogues: *''Arte in

Valdichiana The Val di Chiana, Valdichiana, or Chiana Valley is an alluvial valley of central Italy, lying on the territories of the provinces of Arezzo and Siena in Tuscany and the provinces of Perugia and Terni in Umbria. Geography The Val di Chiana is ...

dal XIII al XVIII secolo'', Cortona 1970; *''

Lorenzo Ghiberti Lorenzo Ghiberti (, , ; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery ...

: Materia e ragionamenti'', Firenze 1978; *''Pittura di luce. Giovanni di Francesco e l'arte fiorentina di metà Quattrocento'', Firenze 1990; *''Una scuola per Piero. Luce, colore e prospettiva nella formazione fiorentina di

Piero della Francesca Piero della Francesca (, also , ; – 12 October 1492), originally named Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca i ...

'', Firenze 1992; *''

Francesco di Giorgio Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist—in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms ...

e il Rinascimento a Siena'', Siena 1993. *''

Masaccio Masaccio (, , ; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, ...

e le origini del Rinascimento'', San Giovanni Valdarno 2003 *''

Duccio Duccio di Buoninsegna ( , ; – ) was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Ducc ...

. Alle origini della pittura senese'', Siena 2003

Personal library and archive

The Biblioteca Umanistica dell'Università di Siena houses his library of 8000 volumes, particularly art historical monographs.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bellosi, Luciano 1936 births 2011 deaths Italian art critics Italian art historians Writers from Florence 20th-century Italian writers