Marisa Volpi (19 August 1928 – 13 May 2015) was an Italian art historian and writer.
Marisa Volpi | |
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| Born | 19 August 1928 |
| Died | 13 May 2015 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | Italian |
Biography
editMarisa Volpi was born in Macerata in 1928 to Dante and Matilde Andreani. Volpi grew up in Rome where she attended Giulio Cesare high school. She graduated with a thesis in Philosophy from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1952 and then further specialized in art history in Florence in 1956 with the art historian Roberto Longhi. Volpi then taught at the universities of Cagliari and Rome. Volpi worked in 17th and 18th-century modern art and contemporary art and wrote papers on Impressionism, symbolism, and expressionism. Volpi taught until 2003. In 2004 she was appointed Emeritus Professor of History of Contemporary Art.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Volpi married Ferdinando Orlandini and often published under the surname "Volpi Orlandini". In 1966 Volpi curated the exhibitions of both Italian and foreign artists at the Editalia Gallery in via del Corso in Rome. Since 1978 Volpi combined the work of being a university professor, art critic and historian with being a writer. She began writing fiction for magazines like "Paragone" and "New topics" before publishing in books. In 1986 she won the Viareggio Prize for fiction.[1][2][6][11][12] Volpi died in Rome in 2015.
References and sources
edit- ^ a b "Biografia". Marisa Volpi. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ a b Trombadori, Duccio (15 May 2015). "Addio a Marisa Volpi, protagonista della cultura "femminile" sempre stupita delle cose del mondo". Il Foglio (in Italian). Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Marisa Volpi – MLAC". MLAC – Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea (in Italian). Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Marisa Volpi Orlandini, storica dell'arte contemporanea. A due anni delle scomparsa, a Roma la mostra-memorial "Lo studio di Marisa Volpi. Arte, critica, scrittura". –". Blog (in Italian). 26 April 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "mostra-memorial "Lo studio di Marisa Volpi. Arte, critica, scrittura"". Home-Page Sito web del Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo (in Italian). 19 April 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Velly Marisa Volpi (1986)" (in Italian). 20 September 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Volpi" (PDF).
- ^ Iamurri, L.; Spinazzé, S. (2001). L'arte delle donne: nell'Italia del Novecento. Meltemi ricerche (in Italian). Meltemi. p. 169. ISBN 978-88-8353-123-1. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ Lazzaro-Weis, C. (2011). From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing, 1968-1990. Literatura italiana. University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8122-0670-8. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ Russell, R. (1997). The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Greenwood Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-313-29435-8. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Marisa Volpi (1928-2015) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France". data.bnf.fr (in French). 19 August 1928. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ Wood, S. (1995). Italian Women's Writing, 1860-1994. Italian Women's Writing, 1860-1994. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-485-91002-5. Retrieved 1 January 2020.