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8. STORICO DELL’ARTE DINAMICO<br />

Storico dell’<strong>art</strong>e eccelso, riconosciuto a livello<br />

internazionale per i suoi numerosi ed eruditi<br />

scritti, a cominciare dai cataloghi delle gallerie<br />

Spada e Pallavicini, Federico Zeri - oltre alla<br />

carriera istituzionale in Italia, culminata nella<br />

vicepresidenza del Consiglio Nazionale per i<br />

Beni Culturali, - è stato anche consulente della<br />

Fondazione Getty in California e accademico<br />

di Francia.<br />

Qui Zeri è ritratto alla scrivania, nella sua casa<br />

di Mentana, appena fuori Roma, dove raccolse<br />

una vasta biblioteca ed una fototeca d’<strong>art</strong>e,<br />

nonché la sua collezione di dipinti e sculture.<br />

Alla sua morte, nel 1998 all’età di settantasette<br />

anni, i suoi archivi furono destinati all’Università<br />

di Bologna, in barba alle sue radici<br />

romane, perché era deluso e apertamente critico<br />

nei confronti della burocrazia statale. Egli<br />

era del resto diventato un personaggio di spicco<br />

in programmi televisivi dove appariva in<br />

caftano di damasco e derideva con grande<br />

dinamismo le pretese di personalità del<br />

mondo dell’<strong>art</strong>e che non rispettava.<br />

Roma, 1997<br />

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DYNAMIC ART HISTORIAN<br />

Internationally recognized as a major <strong>art</strong><br />

historian for his extensive scholarly writings,<br />

beginning with the catalogs of the Galleria Spada<br />

and the Galleria Pallavicini, Federico Zeri was<br />

also an adviser to the Getty Foundation in<br />

California and a member of the French Academy.<br />

Not to mention his career in the Italian <strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong>s<br />

administration, culminating in the vice<br />

presidency of the National Council for the<br />

Cultural Heritage.<br />

He is seen at his desk, at home in Mentana, on<br />

the outskirts of Rome, where he housed his vast<br />

library and <strong>art</strong>s photo archive, as well as his<br />

collection of paintings and sculptures. At his<br />

death in 1998, at the age of seventy-seven, his<br />

papers went to the University of Bologna, in<br />

defiance of his Roman roots, as he was<br />

outspokenly critical of the national bureaucracy.<br />

In fact he had become a striking figure in<br />

television talk shows where he would appear in a<br />

damask caftan and dynamically deride the<br />

pretensions of figures in the <strong>art</strong> world whom he<br />

did not respect.<br />

Rome, 1997

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