Salvatore Settis (born 11 June 1941) is an Italian archaeologist and art historian. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the

Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

in Los Angeles and from 1999 to 2010 of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Since 2010 he has been honorary president of the Associazione Culturale Silvia Dell'Orso. He is also a member of the

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut The German Archaeological Institute (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany ...

, the

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, the

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, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, the Comitato scientifico of the European Research Council, and the

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Personal life and education

Born in

Rosarno Rosarno is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria. It is about southwest of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. Rosarno stands on a natural terrace cloaked in olive ...

, he graduated in classical archaeology from the

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as a student of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 1963. He married Chiara Frugoni in 1965, with whom he had three children.

Career

Getty Center

Settis, who was known as a scholar of ancient and

Renaissance art Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occ ...

, was a Getty consultant and

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before joining the staff of the Getty Center in

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in 1994. He was appointed director in March 1993, to replace the founder Kurt Forster, who resigned in 1992 . Settis left that position in January 1999, announcing that he would return to his former position as a professor of classical archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore."Art:Getty Shuffle," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 16, 1999, image 54
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Honours

Works

* ''La "Tempesta" interpretata. Giorgione, i committenti, il soggetto'', Torino, Einaudi, 1978 * Settis-La Regina-Agosti-Farinella, ''La Colonna Traiana'', Collana Saggi n.716, Torino, Einaudi 1988 * ''Laocoonte. Fama e stile'', Collana Virgolette, Roma, Donzelli 1999, . * ''Italia S.p.A. L'assalto al patrimonio culturale'', Collana Gli struzzi n.554, Torino, Einaudi 2002 * ''Passaggi e paesaggi'' (with Saverio Calocero), Roma, Donzelli 2003 * ''Quale eccellenza? Intervista sulla Normale di Pisa'' (edited by Silvia Dell'Orso), Collana Saggi Tascabili, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004, . * * ''Battaglie senza eroi. I beni culturali tra istituzioni e profitto,'' Electa, Milano 2005 * (editor) ''Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana'', Einaudi, Torino * ''Iconografia dell'arte italiana 1100-1500: una linea'', Collana Piccola Biblioteca, Torino, Einaudi, 2005 * * ''La villa di Livia. Le pareti ingannevoli'', Mondadori Electa, Milano 2008 * ''Artisti e committenti fra Quattro e Cinquecento'', Postfazione di Antonio Pinelli, Collana Piccola Biblioteca, Torino, Einaudi, 2010 * ''Paesaggio Costituzione cemento. La battaglia per l'ambiente contro il degrado civile'', Torino, Einaudi, 2010 * ''Azione Popolare. Cittadini per il bene comune'', Torino, Einaudi, 2012 * * (presentazione di) ''Il cammino della Comunità'', Roma, Edizioni di Comunità, 2013 * ''Se Venezia muore'', Collana Vele, Torino, Einaudi, 2014, . * ''Costituzione! Perché attuarla è meglio che cambiarla'', Torino, Einaudi, 2016, . * ''Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggio, città, diritti civili'', Torino, Einaudi, 2017 * ''Cieli d'Europa. Cultura, creatività, uguaglianza'', UTET, 2017

As editor

* * ''Civiltà dei Romani'', Electa, Milano, 1990-1993 * ''I Greci. Storia, cultura, arte, società'', Torino, Einaudi 1996-2002

References

External links

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