Eduard Alexandr Safarik (Šafařík) (19 May 1928 – 15 August 2015)[1][2] was an Italian art historian of Czech descent. He focused on Italian art, especially Venetian paintings of the 16th and 17th century, and Jan Kupecký.[3] He authored several monographs and many articles, catalogues and encyclopedic entries.[3]

Career

In the 1950s Safarik was the director of the pinacotheca of Kroměříž Archbishop's Palace, where he discovered several masterpieces, including a painting by Paolo Veronese.[3] In 1957–1968 he worked in the National Gallery in Prague, and after that in Bibliotheca Hertziana and Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome.[3] In 1971 Safarik became the director of the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, and in the 1980s he was the director of the Colonna Art Gallery.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Sbírka profesora Safarika se bude dražit". Novinky.cz. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Czech National Authority Database.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Malíř a jeho znalec". Retrieved 23 January 2016.
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