Paolo Bolpagni (born in Brescia) is an Italian art historian, critic and curator.

Life

Bolpagni was born in

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, in

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in northern Italy. He graduated in

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from the

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 Brescia, and then completed a

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at the same university in

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. Since 2010 he has taught at the Brescia campus of the university. He also teaches at the Università degli Studi eCampus. From 2008 to 2011, and again from 2013, he was director of the in

Concesio Concesio (Brescian: ; locally ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy in Trompia valley. It is located north of Brescia and south of Sarezzo. Concesio is located in the lower Val Trompia, at the foot of Monte Spina. T ...

, in the

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, and in 2016 became director of the Fondazione Centro Studi sull'Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti in

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one o ...

, in

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. He won the Premio Sulmona for history of art in 2013; he is the youngest person to have won the prize.

Work

Bolpagni has written on the twentieth-century artist , founder of the , and has also published work on the interaction between music and the visual arts. In 2011–2012, he created a channel on

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where he presented short videos on the history of contemporary art.

Publications

* ''L'arte nell'"Avanti della Domenica" 1903-1907'', Mazzotta, Milan, 2008. * ''Mario Ballocco'', Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2009. * ''Visioni musicali. Rapporti tra musica e arti visive nel Novecento'' (with Francesco Tedeschi), Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 2009. * ''Ritmi visivi.

Luigi Veronesi Luigi Veronesi (28 May 1908 – 25 February 1998) was an Italian photographer, painter, scenographer and film director born in Milan. Early career Luigi Veronesi trained as textile designer in the 1920s and by practised photography. He was ...

nell'astrattismo europeo'', Edizioni Fondazione Ragghianti Studi sull'Arte, Lucca, 2011. * ''Arte, socialità, politica. Articoli dell'"Avanti della Domenica" 1903-1907'', Fondazione

Anna Kuliscioff Anna Kuliscioff (; rus, Анна Кулишёва, , ˈanːə kʊlʲɪˈʂovə; born Anna Moiseyevna Rozenshtein, ; 9 January 1857 – 27 December 1925) was a Russian-Italian revolutionary of Jewish origin, a prominent feminist, an anarchist in ...

- EDIFIS, Milan, 2011. * '' Fortuny e

Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

. Il wagnerismo nelle arti visive in Italia'', Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Skira, Venice-Milan, 2012. * ''All'Origine della forma. Mario Ballocco -

Alberto Burri Alberto Burri (12 March 191513 February 1995; ) was an Italian visual artist, painter, sculptor, and physician based in Città di Castello. He is associated with the matterism of the European informal art movement and described his style as ...

- Giuseppe Capogrossi - Ettore Colla'', Allemandi, Turin-Milan, 2013. * ''Brescia. Breathtaking beauty'', La Compagnia della Stampa, Brescia, 2015. * ''Sguardi paralleli: Ballocco / Morellet'', Edizioni Fondazione Ragghianti Studi sull'Arte, Lucca, 2016.

References

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