Philippe Daverio leaves us at the age of 70.

Farewell to Philippe Daverio. The noted art historian, lecturer, popularizer and essayist passed away tonight at the Istituto dei Tumori in Milan at the age of 70. The tragic event was made known by Andrée Ruth Shammah, director and director of Franco Parenti.

Great condolences from the world of culture and art, beginning with MiBACT Minister Dario Franceschini, who wrote in a note, “Intellectual of extraordinary humanity, a capable popularizer of culture, a sensitive and refined art historian. With sagacity and passion, he accompanied Italians and Italians in the fascinating discovery of architecture, landscapes, creative expression, artists, and the sources of our cultural heritage. All this was Philippe Daverio, a man whose great intelligence and critical spirit I have always appreciated and who is already missed by all of us.”

Born Oct. 17, 1949, in Mulhouse, Alsace, he specialized in 20th-century Italian art and devoted his studies to the international revival of the 20th century.

Analderman in Milan from 1993 to 1997, he was responsible for the reconstruction of the Pavilion of Contemporary Art destroyed in the bomb explosion on July 27, 1993; later he was responsible for the renovation of the entire building of the Palazzo Reale and its adaptation as a Museum of Contemporary Art; in January 1995 the Sala delle Cariatidi was reopened to the public on the occasion of the Richard Avedon exhibition he curated, and he carried out important and numerous exhibitions.

He was also involved in the restoration of the Teatro alla Scala, and was among the promoters of the foundations (Fondazione Teatro alla Scala, Fondazione Pierlombardo, Fondazione dei Pomeriggi Musicali); he promoted and supervised a number of significant public works, including the completion of the Piccolo Teatro and the Teatro dell’Arte in the Triennale.

In 1995 he produced the major festival Festival dei Teatri d’Europa in collaboration with Giorgio Strehler, a set of performances in collaboration with leading European theaters. In 1996, as part of a larger framework of interventions by the City of Milan aimed at the redevelopment of unresolved spaces in the city’s historic center, he participated in the new project of Piazza San Babila with the fountain by Luigi Caccia Dominioni.

Philippe Daverio has always defined himself as an art historian, and that is how the Raitre television audience discovered him: in 1999 as “special correspondent” of the program Art’è, in 2000 as author and host of the program Art.tù, then from 2002 to 2012 as author and host of Passepartout, an art and culture program that became Il Capitale, and of the 2011 program Emporio Daverio for RAI 5.

Agallerist and publisher, he has published many scientific, but mostly popular books; since 2008 he has directed the magazine Art and Dossier for the Giunti publishing house in Florence.

His latest publications include the volume Il Museo Immaginato (The Imagined Museum), published by Rizzoli, in 2011, and the volume Il Secolo lungo della Modernità (The Long Century of Modernity), for the same publishing house, with which in 2013 he published Guardar lontano veder vicino. Exercises in Curiosity and Art History, followed in late 2014 by The Broken Century of the Avant-Garde. In 2015 La buona strada, L’arte in Tavola and Il gioco della pittura, also published by Rizzoli. In 2013 he received the Cavalierato delle Arti e delle Lettere from the President of the Italian Republic and the Gold Medal of Merit from the Minister of Cultural Heritage; also in 2013 he was awarded the Légion d’Honneur by the President of the French Republic; since September 2014 he has been Artistic Director of the Grand Museum of the Duomo in Milan, and since 2015 a member of the Scientific Committee of the Pinacoteca di Brera and Braidense National Library.

Philippe Daverio leaves us at the age of 70.

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