Eduard Alexandr Safarik (Šafařík) (19 May 1928 – 15 August 2015)
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was an Italian art historian of Czech descent. He focused on Italian art, especially Venetian paintings of the 16th and 17th century, and Jan Kupecký
Ján Kupecký or Jan Kupecký (in German: Johann Kupetzky, in Hungarian: Kupecky János, or Kupeczky János, 1667 – July 16, 1740) was a Czech portrait painter during the baroque. He was active in Hungary, Vienna and Nürnberg. Bernhard Voge ...
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Career
In the 1950s Safarik was the director of the pinacotheca
A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from grc, πινακοθήκη, pinakothēkē = grc, πίναξ, pinax, (painted) board, tablet, label=none + grc, θήκη, thēkē, box, chest, label=none) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or anc ...
of Kroměříž Archbishop's Palace
Kroměříž (; german: Kremsier) is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 28,000 inhabitants. It is known for the Kroměříž Castle with castle gardens, which are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town centre with ...
, where he discovered several masterpieces, including a painting by Paolo Veronese
Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...
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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 director of the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, and in the 1980s he was the director of the Colonna Art Gallery.][
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References
External links
Official site
(in Italian)
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1928 births
2015 deaths
Italian people of Czech descent
20th-century Italian historians
Italian male non-fiction writers