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Sgarbi

Vittorio SGARBI

Cultural Council Member for the City of Milan

Vittorio Sgarbi was born in Ferrara, Italy on the 8th of May 1952. He graduated with a degree in philosophy and a specialization in Art History from the University of Bologna. Today, he is an author and television director.

He has published numerous volumes commenting and critiquing art works, including, Carpaccio (1979, published in the USA by Abbeville and in France by Liana Levi), Palladio e la Maniera. I pittori vicentini del '500 e i collaboratori del Palladio, 1530-1630 (1980), Pietro Longhi. I dipinti di Palazzo Leoni Montanari (1982), Gnoli (1983, Premio Acquasparta), Tutti i musei d’Italia (1984), Il sogno della pittura (1985, Premio Estense), Antonio da Crevalcore e la pittura ferrarese del Quattrocento a Bologna (1985), Mattioli (1987), Soutine (1988), Storia Universale dell’arte (1988), Lezioni private (1996), A regola d’arte (1998), La casa dell’anima (1999).

He published in conjunction with Rizzoli, Davanti all’immagine (1989, Premio Bancarella 1990), Il pensiero segreto (1990), Dell’Italia. Uomini e luoghi (1991, Premio Fregene), Gli immortali (1998), Notte e giorno d’intorno girando (1998), Le tenebre e la rosa (2000), Percorsi perversi (2001), Parmigianino (2003), Un paese sfigurato (2003), Andrea Palladio. La luce della ragione. Esempi di vita in villa dal XIV al XVIII secolo (2004).

For the Bompiani edition, he published Roma: dizionario dei monumenti italiani e dei loro autori (1991), Il bene e il bello (2002), Dell’anima (2004), Ragione e passione (2005), Vedere le parole. La scrittura d’arte da Vasari a Longhi (2005).

Sgarbi also acted as the curator for various art exhibits, in Italy and abroad, including among others, those for Valerio Adami, Vangi, Botero, Nathan.

He is director for the Superintendent of History and Artistic Works for the city of Venice.

Sgarbi also collaborates with various Italian newspapers and magazines, including “Bell’Italia”, “Grazia”, “Il Giornale”, “L’Espresso”, “Panorama”, “Restauro & Conservazione”, “Oggi”, “Arte e Documento”.

He was elected as a deputy to the Italian Parliament in 1992 and 2001, and to the European Parliament in 1999.

He was also the Italian Undersecretary of Culture, and in 2006 he was elected as the Cultural Council Member for the City of Milan