Evelina Borea

Evelina Borea
Born (1931-09-22) 22 September 1931 (age 93)
Ferrara, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Florence (M.A.)
OccupationArt historian

Evelina Borea (born 1931, Ferrara, Italy) is an Italian art historian, author and curator.[1]

Biography

Evelina Borea obtained a degree in History of Art in 1958 at the University of Florence. Her tutor and mentor was art historian Roberto Longhi.

In 1976 Borea edited a publication of Gian Pietro Bellori's Lives, with a preface by Giovanni Previtali for Einaudi.[2]

Borea curated major exhibitions, notably Caravaggio e Caravaggeschi nelle Gallerie di Firenze (1970)[3] and L'idea del bello in spring 2000.[4] She is the author of studies on Domenichino (1965),[5] Rosso Fiorentino (1965), Francesco Mochi (1966), Caravaggio and the Caravaggeschi (1966), and Annibale Carracci (1986).

Bibliography

Borea, Evelina (1965). Domenichino. Milan: Edizioni per il Club del Libro.
Borea, Evelina (1965). Rosso Fiorentino. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri.
Borea, Evelina (1965). Il Chiostrino dell'Annunziata a Firenze. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri.
Borea, Evelina (1966). Francesco Mochi. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri.
Borea, Evelina (1970). Caravaggio e caravaggeschi nelle gallerie di Firenze. Florence: Palazzo Pitti.
Borea, Evelina; Bellori, Gian Pietro (1976). Le vite de' pittori, scultori e architetti moderni. Turin: G. Einaudi.
Borea, Evelina (1986). Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori. École franc̜aise de Rome.
Borea, Evelina (2000). L'idea del bello: viaggio per Roma nel Seicento con Giovan Pietro Bellori. Rome: Edizioni de Luca.

References

  1. ^ "Evelina Borea". einaudi.it. Giulio Einaudi editore. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  2. ^ Terzaghi, Maria Cristina (December 2011). "Evelina Borea". No. 315. Il Giornale dell'Arte. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  3. ^ Borea, Evelina (1970). Caravaggio e Caravaggeschi nelle gallerie di Firenze. Florence: Mostra Firenze, Sansoni. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  4. ^ Colantuono, Anthony (September 2001). "L'idea del bello: Viaggio per Roma nel Seicento con Giovanni Pietro Bellori by Evelina Borea; Carlo Gasparri; Luciana Arcangeli; Lucilla de Lachenal". The Burlington Magazine. 143 (1182): 576–577. JSTOR 889276.
  5. ^ Spear, Richard (December 1967). "Review: Domenichino by Evelina Borea". The Art Bulletin. 49 (4): 360–368. doi:10.2307/3048499. JSTOR 3048499.


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