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14. PONTEFICE DELLE ARTI<br />

Sir John Pope-Hennessey, studioso di chiara<br />

fama, era anche un abile amministratore,<br />

essendo stato direttore del Victoria and Albert<br />

Museum, del British Museum e del dip<strong>art</strong>imento<br />

di pittura europea del Metropolitan<br />

Museum of Art di New York. In breve, un pilastro<br />

del mondo dell’<strong>art</strong>e serio. I suoi libri sui<br />

grandi periodi della scultura italiana sono<br />

monumenti della storia dell’<strong>art</strong>e.<br />

In conversazione, i suoi commenti taglienti su<br />

qualsiasi tema dell’<strong>art</strong>e alta e della alta vita<br />

sociale venivano comunicati in nitriti di chiara<br />

razza oxfordiana.<br />

È morto come uno dei grandi vecchi della tradizione<br />

anglo-fiorentina, avendo scelto di<br />

ritirarsi in un’accogliente casa foderata di<br />

libri, con vista sull’Arno.<br />

Per i romani è ricordato anche come membro<br />

del comitato scientifico del Museo Storico dell’Isola<br />

Tiberina<br />

New York, 1983<br />

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PONTIFF OF THE ARTS<br />

Sir John Pope-Hennessy (1913-1994), the eminent<br />

scholar, was also a notable administrator,<br />

having headed the Victoria and Albert Museum,<br />

the British Museum and the European painting<br />

dep<strong>art</strong>ment of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in<br />

New York. In short, a pillar of the serious <strong>art</strong><br />

world. His books on the great periods of Italian<br />

sculpture are landmarks in <strong>art</strong> history.<br />

In conversation his trenchant comments on all<br />

subjects in high <strong>art</strong> and high life were conveyed in<br />

a high-bred Oxbridge whinny.<br />

He died as one of the grand old men in the Anglo-<br />

Florentine tradition, having chosen to retire to a<br />

book-lined snuggery overlooking the Arno.<br />

For Romans he is remembered also as a member<br />

of the International Scholars Committee of the<br />

Tiber Island History Museum.<br />

New York, 1983

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