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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
became the president. Among its organizers was a group of republicans belonging to the antifascist resistance movement Giustizia e Libertà. Besides Ascoli and Salvemini, there were Tullia Calabi, Lionello Venturi, Michele Cantarella, Roberto Bolaffio, interim president Renato Poggioli, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, and Carlo Tresca. Its newsletter was the periodical "Mazzini News" and later "Nazioni unite" ('Nations united').
With the German occupation of France in June 1940 many Italian antifascists, exiled beyond the Alps, were forced to emigrate again