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Bellosi, Luciano

    Full Name: Bellosi, Luciano

    Other Names:

    • Luciano Bellosi

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 07 July 1936

    Date Died: 26 April 2011

    Place Born: Florence, Tuscany, Italy

    Place Died: Florence, Tuscany, Italy

    Home Country/ies: Italy

    Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style), Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles, and Renaissance


    Overview

    Historian of the trecento Italian Renaissance. Bellosi was the son of Enrico Bellosi and Maria Cuccuini (Bellosi). His father worked as a gardener and his mother in domestic service. The younger Bellosi attended the University of Florence where he wrote his dissertation under Roberto Longhi in 1963 on the trecento artist Lorenzo Monaco. After a year in the Italian military, 1963-1964, he worked under the Soprintendenza per I Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze, 1969 to 1979. Bellosi was awarded the Premio Viareggio (award) in 1974. He joined the University of Siena in in 1979 as professor of Medieval Art History, heading the department 1983-1986. He retired from the University in 2002. His essay on the young Bellini, “Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna,” in Mantegna in 1431-1506, appeared in the catalog of the exhibition in 2008. Among his other techniques, Bellosi used costume history to redate many of the paintings of the Italian Trecento.


    Selected Bibliography

    and Matteoli, Anna. Mostra d’arte sacra della diocesi di San Miniato, 1969. San Miniato: Stampato a cura della Cassa di risparmio,1969; and Cantelli, Giuseppe, and Lenzini Moriondo, Margherita. Arte in Valdichiana dal XIII al XVIII secolo. Cortona: s.n., 1970; Buffalmacco e il Trinfo della Morte. Turin: Einaudi, 1974; Giotto. London: Constable, 1981; La Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna. 2 vols. Bologna: Cassa di Risparmio, 1983; and Lotti, Dilvo, Simone Martini: atti del convegno. Florence: Centro Di, 1988; edited, Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de’ piú eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani: da Cimabue insino a’ tempi nostri: nell edizione per i tipi di Lorenzo Torrentino, Firenze 1550. Turin: G. Einaudi, 1986; Giotto: Complete Works. New York: Riverside, 1993; Duccio: la Maestà. Milan: Electa, 1998, English, Duccio: the Maestà. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999; Cimabue. Milan: Federico Motta, 1998, English, Cimabue. New York: Abbeville Press, 1998; “The Function of the Rucellai Madonna in the Church of Santa Maria Novella.” in, Italian Panel Painting of the Duecento and Trecento. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, 2002; and Tartuferi, Angelo, and Parenti, Daniela. Lorenzo Monaco: a Bridge from Giotto’s Heritage to the Renaissance. Florence: Firenze musei, 2006.


    Sources

    [cited] Previtali, Giovanni. “The Periodization of Italian Art History.” History of Italian Art. vol. 2 Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994, p. 17, note 20; [obituary:] “Morto Bellosi, Attribui’Cristo Ligneo a Buonarroti Ansa.” Notiziario Generale in Italiano, April 27, 2011


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    Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen


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    Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen. "Bellosi, Luciano." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/bellq/.


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