Luciano Caramel (13 December 1935 – November 2022) was an Italian art critic, curator, and art historian. In the 1980s he was Deputy Director of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in

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. He taught

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (English: ''Catholic University of the Sacred Heart'', colloquially the ''Catholic University of Milan''), known as UCSC or UNICATT or simply Cattolica, is an Italian private research university founded in 19 ...

in Milan and at Accademia Albertina in

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. He was an expert on the work of

Medardo Rosso Medardo Rosso (; 21 June 1858 – 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor. He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to be an artist working in a Post Impressionism, post-Impressionist style. Biography and works Rosso wa ...

. His publications include ''Arte in Italia 1945-1960'', a university textbook. In 2002, he co-curated with Carlo Chenis the 10th edition of The Sacred Art Biennial in

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'' dedicated to him, ''Il presente si fa storia, scritti in onore di Luciano Caramel'', was published in 2008. Caramel died in November 2022, at the age of 86.Morto lo storico dell’arte, docente e curatore Luciano Caramel

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Caramel, Luciano 1935 births 2022 deaths Italian art critics Italian art historians Italian art curators People from Como Academic staff of Brera Academy Academic staff of the University of Salento Academic staff of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 20th-century Italian historians 21st-century Italian historians