Graziano Gasparini (31 July 1924 – 30 November 2019) was a Venezuelan architect, photographer, painter and historian,[1] sometimes referred to as Graciano Gasparini (ie using a Spanish version of his first name).
Gasparini was born in Gorizia, on the Italian–Slovenian border, in 1924. After completing his education in Venice, he worked for Carlo Scarpa in connection with the Biennale. After a break caused by the Second World War, the famous exhibition resumed in 1948, and Gasparini first visited Venezuela that year while promoting it.[2] He settled in Caracas and pursued a career as an architect. He specialised in restoring Spanish Colonial architecture, while developing a parallel career as an architectural historian.[3] The buildings he worked on include the Bolivarian Museum in Caracas, which was inaugurated in 1960.
His scholarship was recognised by the award of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.[4]
He died in Caracas, aged 95.
Personal life
editMarriages
editGasparini's first wife was the Venezuelan sociologist Olga Lagrange, who died in 1971.
Some of his publications were written jointly with his second wife, the american anthropologist Luise Margolies.
Brother
editHis brother Paolo Gasparini (1934, Gorizia, Italy) was trained as a photographer within the Italian neorealist current, at the beginning of the fifties. In 1955 he settled in Venezuela.[5]
Bibliography
editBeginning with a survey of Spanish Colonial churches in Venezuela (Templos coloniales de Venezuela. Caracas, 1959), he published on a variety of topics related to Latin American architecture, including prehispanic and indigenous traditions. Caracas a través de su arquitectura remains the only compendium on the history of architecture of Venezuela's capital.
- Templos coloniales de Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini. 1959
- Caracas a través de su Arquitectura. Graziano Gasparini and Juan Pedro Posani (1969)
- Inca Architecture. Graziano Gasparini and Luise Margolies. (English translation 1980)[6]
- Las fortificaciones del período hispánico en Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini (1985)
- Arquitectura colonial iberoamericana. Graziano Gasparini, editor (1997)
- Arquitectura Indigena de Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini and Luise Margolies (2005). An excerpt La Vivienda Colectiva de los Yanomami appears in "Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America": Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 1.
References
edit- ^ "Murió Graziano Gasparini, restaurador de monumentos históricos en Venezuela". El Pitazo. 30 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
- ^ "Graziano Gasparini". Prodavinci. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "RESEÑA SOBRE LA PROTECCIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO HISTÓRICO Y ARTÍSTICO VENEZOLANO". revista de patrimonio (revistadepatrimonio.es). Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Graziano Gasparini". gf.org. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "Paolo Gasparini, fotografo".
- ^ "Book review". Science. 1980. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
External links
edit- interview Registro Nacional Voz de los Creadores. 2004.