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Tomaso Montanari (born 15 October 1971) is an Italian art historian, academic and essayist.

Life

He was born in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

and there attended the liceo classico Dante, before graduating from the

University of Pisa The University of Pisa ( it, Università di Pisa, UniPi), officially founded in 1343, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. History The Origins The University of Pisa was officially founded in 1343, although various scholars place ...

and studying alongside Paola Barocchi at the

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 wi ...

. He became ordinary professor of Modern Art History at the Università per Stranieri di Siena before teaching at the

Università della Tuscia University of Tuscia ( it, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, UNITUS) is a university located in Viterbo, Italy. It was founded in 1979 and comprises 6 faculties. On 26 February 2019, the President of Republic Sergio Mattarella inaugurated th ...

, the

Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Tor Vergata University of Rome, also known as the University of Rome II ( it, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. Located in the southeastern suburb of Rome, the university combine ...

and the

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

. He is notable as one of the most authoritative authors on western Baroque art, on which he has written over one hundred essays in scholarly reviews and for noted publishers. He is president of the Comitato tecnico scientifico per le Belle Arti (technical scientific committee for fine arts) in Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and is thus also ''ex officio'' a member of the

Consiglio Universitario Nazionale The Consiglio Universitario Nazionale (CUN; Italian for National University Council) is an elected body representing the various sectors of the Italian university system. It was established by law n. 18 of 26 January, 2006. The current president is ...

. He is also a member of the

Uffizi The Uffizi Gallery (; it, Galleria degli Uffizi, italic=no, ) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums ...

's scientific committee, the editorial panel of the review ''Prospettiva'' and the jury for the Premio Sila. He writes for the ''

Il Fatto Quotidiano ''il Fatto Quotidiano'' (English: "The Daily Fact") is an Italian daily newspaper owned by ''Editoriale Il Fatto SpA'' published in Rome, Italy. It was founded on 23 September 2009 and was edited by Antonio Padellaro until 2015, when Marco Trav ...

'' and the 'Ora d'Arte' column for the '' Il Venerdì di Repubblica''. He considers himself a "radical Catholic", influenced by the ideas of

Lorenzo Milani Lorenzo Carlo Domenico Milani Comparetti (27 May 1923 – 26 June 1967) was an Italian Catholic priest. He was an educator of poor children and an advocate of conscientious objection. Biography Milani was born in Florence in 1923 to a rich midd ...

Journalism

Newspapers

* '' Corriere Fiorentino'' (until 2013); * '' Corriere del Mezzogiorno'' (2013-2014); * ''

la Repubblica ''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo ...

'' (2014-2018); * '' HuffPost Italia'' (2015-2018); * ''

'' (dal 2018);

Magazines

* '' Il Venerdì di Repubblica'' (dal 2014); * ''

MicroMega ''MicroMega'' is a political, cultural, social and economic newsmagazine published bimonthly in Rome, Italy. The title ''MicroMega'' is probably inspired by a tale by Voltaire. History and profile ''MicroMega'' was founded in March 1986 by the ...

'' (dal 2013); *
Altreconomia
' (dal 2016).

Books

Editor

Prefaces and postscripts

TV

* ''La libertà di Bernini'', 8 episodes aired from 7 January 2015 on Rai5, directed by Luca Criscenti * ''La vera natura di Caravaggio'', 12 episodes aired from 16 December 2016 in onda su Rai5, directed by Luca Criscenti * ''I silenzi di Vermeer'', 4 episodes aired from 21 dicembre 2018 on Rai5, directed by Luca Criscenti * ''Favole forme figure'', 12 ten-minute episodes on Italian masterpieces on the ''Loft'' slot on ''Il Fatto Quotidiano'', from 29 October 2018 * ''Velázquez. L'ombra della vita'', 4 episodes aired from 8 February 2019 on Rai5, directed by Luca Criscenti * ''Eretici'', ten episodes of biographies (Tina Anselmi, Hannah Arendt, Francesco Borromini, Piero Calamandrei, Danilo Dolci, Papa Francesco, Giorgio La Pira, Don Milani, Socrate, Paolo Veronese) on the ''Loft'' slot on ''Il Fatto Quotidiano'', dal 28 febbraio 2019 * ''Gli abissi di Tiepolo'', aired from 27 March 2020 on Rai5, directed by Luca Criscenti

References

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