Farewell to Lorenza Trucchi, historic Italian art critic

Passed away in Rome on Feb. 4, 2026, at the age of 104, Lorenza Trucchi, a historic Italian art critic and a central figure in the cultural landscape of the 20th century. Born in Munich in 1922 and moved to Rome in 1934, Trucchi completed her classical studies and graduated in Law, but her passion for journalism led her to give up the legal profession. In 1949 she began publishing her first articles, and from 1950 she collaborated with several newspapers, including Il Momento, Il Gazzettino and Il Corriere Mercantile, and with periodicals such as Leggere, Il Taccuino delle Arti, Giovedì and Art Dossier.

In 1955, she began writing for The Literary Fair, soon assuming responsibility for the fine arts and architecture section. In the following years, she was invited by Dino Buzzati and Franco Russoli to collaborate with the art page of Corriere della Sera. From 1967 to 1977 she signed the weekly column Arte per tutti on Momento Sera and participated as an art critic in Il Giornale Nuovo and Indro Montanelli’s La Voce, as well as collaborating with the magazine Qui Arte Contemporanea. From 1961 to 1968 she edited the art insert of the magazine L’Europa letteraria, directed by Giancarlo Vigorelli.

The author of numerous essays and monographs, including works devoted to Cézanne, Pollock, Dubuffet and Francis Bacon, Trucchi has curated major exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including retrospectives of Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Magnelli, exhibitions at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano. He has held major institutional positions, as commissioner of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1982 and member of the Biennale’s Visual Arts Sector Expert Commission in 1988 and 1990. Between 1969 and 1994 he taught History of Art at the Academies of Fine Arts in L’Aquila and Rome, while from 1995 to 2001 he directed the Esposizione Nazionale Quadriennale d’Arte in Rome.

Farewell to Lorenza Trucchi, historic Italian art critic

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