Full Name: Cecchi, Emilio
Gender: male
Date Born: 1884
Date Died: 1966
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): catalogues raisonnés
Career(s): art critics
Overview
Giotto scholar and film critic; notes about Cecchi’s opinions appear in Richard Offner‘s annotated catalog of the 1937 Mostra Giottesca. He acted as the translator of Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson. His son (?) is the art historian Alessandro Cecchi.
Sources
Ladis, Andrew. “The Unmaking of a Connoisseur.” in, Offner, Richard. A Discerning Eye: Essays on Early Italian Painting. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p,19, note 1; Bolzoni, Francesco. Emilio Cecchi fra Buster Keaton e Visconti. Rome: Centro sperimentale per la cinematografia, Cineteca nazionale, 1995; Mucci, Velso. “Emilio Cechi uomo d’ordine.” Contemporaneo 5/6 (August-September 1958): 53-69.
Archives
- Cecchi Emilio, Gabinetto scientifico letterario G. P. Vieusseux. Archivio contemporaneo Alessandro Bonsanti. http://siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it/cgi-bin/pagina.pl?TipoPag=comparc&Chiave=287126&RicLin=en&RicProgetto=personalita.
Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen