Marisa Volpi (19 August 1928 – 13 May 2015) was an Italian art historian and writer.

Biography

Marisa Volpi was born in

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in 1928 to Dante and Matilde Andreani. Volpi grew up in

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where she attended Giulio Cesare high school. She graduated with a thesis in Philosophy from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1952 and then further specialized in art history in Florence in 1956 with the art historian

Roberto Longhi Roberto Longhi (28 December 1890 – 3 June 1970) was an Italian academic, art historian, and curator. The main subjects of his studies were the painters Caravaggio and Piero della Francesca. Early life and career Longhi was born in December 1 ...

. Volpi then taught at the universities of Cagliari and Rome. Volpi worked in 17th and 18th-century modern art and contemporary art and wrote papers on Impressionism, symbolism, and expressionism. Volpi taught until 2003. In 2004 she was appointed Emeritus Professor of History of Contemporary Art. Volpi married Ferdinando Orlandini and often published under the surname "Volpi Orlandini". In 1966 Volpi curated the exhibitions of both Italian and foreign artists at the Editalia Gallery in via del Corso in Rome. Since 1978 Volpi combined the work of being a university professor, art critic and historian with being a writer. She began writing fiction for magazines like "Paragone" and "New topics" before publishing in books. In 1986 she won the

Viareggio Prize The Viareggio Prize ( or ) is an Italian literature, literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscany, Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Repaci, to rival the Milanese Bagutta Priz ...

for fiction. Volpi died in

in 2015.

References and sources

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