Lionello Venturi [SEP] father
Lionello Venturi
Lionello Venturi (25 April 1885, Modena – 14 August 1961, Rome) was an Italian historian and critic of art. He edited the first catalogue raisonné of Paul Cézanne.
Life.
Lionello Venturi was born in 1885, son of art historian Adolfo Venturi.
He became a specialist in the art of the Italian Renaissance, but was also interested in late 19th and early 20th century art.
In 1918 he met the financier and collector Riccardo Gualino, and advised him to buy work by
Franco Venturi
Franco Venturi (Rome, 1914 - Turin, December 14, 1994) was an Italian historian, essayist and journalist, a scholar of the Enlightenment in Italy and of the history of Russia, and an anti-fascist active in the Resistance.
Life.
In 1915, the year after Venturi was born, his father Lionello Venturi, having had his frustration reach its maximum point, decided to start another family in Turin where he won the competition to fill the chair of Film Director at the University