Salvatore Settis
{{Short description|Italian archaeologist and art historian (born 1941)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|06|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rosarno, Province of Reggio Calabria, Italy
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Archaeologist
- art historian
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Salvatore Settis (born 11 June 1941) is an Italian archaeologist and art historian. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and from 1999 to 2010 of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
Since 2010 he has been honorary president of the Associazione Culturale Silvia Dell'Orso.{{cite web|url=http://www.a-sdo.org/il-presidente-onorario/|title=Il Presidente Onorario}} He is also a member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, the Comitato scientifico of the European Research Council, and the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Salvatore+Settis&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=29 March 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
Personal life and education
Born in Rosarno, he graduated in classical archaeology from the University of Pisa as a student of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 1963. He married Chiara Frugoni in 1965, with whom he had three children.
Career
= Getty Center =
Settis, who was known as a scholar of ancient and Renaissance art, was a Getty consultant and scholar before joining the staff of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, in 1994.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/157157115/?terms=salvatore%2Bsettis "Salvatore Settis,' Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1997, image 510] He was appointed director in March 1993, to replace the founder Kurt Forster, who resigned in 1992.{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-20-ca-4303-story.html | title=Getty Center's Kurt Forster Resigns Post | website=Los Angeles Times | date=20 March 1992 }}[https://www.newspapers.com/image/418084813/?terms=salvatore%2Bsettis Alan G. Artner, "Showtime: Fair Draws 24 Dealers, 10,000 Vintage Posters," Chicago Tribune, March 25, 1993, image 78] Settis left that position in January 1999, announcing that he would return to his former position as a professor of classical archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/160918240/?terms=salvatore%2Bsettis "Art:Getty Shuffle," Los Angeles Times, January 16, 1999, image 54]
Honours
Works
- La "Tempesta" interpretata. Giorgione, i committenti, il soggetto, Torino, Einaudi, 1978.
- Settis-La Regina-Agosti-Farinella, La Colonna Traiana, Collana Saggi n. 716, Torino, Einaudi, 1988.
- Laocoonte. Fama e stile, Collana Virgolette, Roma, Donzelli 1999. {{ISBN|978-88-603-6040-3}}.
- Italia S.p.A. L'assalto al patrimonio culturale, Collana Gli struzzi n. 554, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- Passaggi e paesaggi (with Saverio Calocero), Roma, Donzelli, 2003
- Quale eccellenza? Intervista sulla Normale di Pisa (edited by Silvia Dell'Orso), Collana Saggi Tascabili, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004. {{ISBN|978-88-420-6974-4}}.
- {{Cite book|title=Futuro del "classico"|location=Torino|publisher=Einaudi|year=2004|isbn=978-88-061-4380-0}}
- Battaglie senza eroi. I beni culturali tra istituzioni e profitto, Electa, Milano, 2005.
- (editor) Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana, Einaudi, Torino.
- Iconografia dell'arte italiana 1100-1500: una linea, Collana Piccola Biblioteca, Torino, Einaudi, 2005.
- {{Cite book|title=Artemidoro. Un papiro dal I secolo al XXI secolo (Collana Saggi)|publisher=Einaudi|location=Torino|year=2008|isbn=978-88-061-9671-4}}
- La villa di Livia. Le pareti ingannevoli, Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2008.
- Artisti e committenti fra Quattro e Cinquecento, Postfazione di Antonio Pinelli, Collana Piccola Biblioteca, Torino, Einaudi, 2010.
- Paesaggio Costituzione cemento. La battaglia per l'ambiente contro il degrado civile, Torino, Einaudi, 2010.
- Azione Popolare. Cittadini per il bene comune, Torino, Einaudi, 2012.
- {{cite book|title=Il paesaggio come bene comune|edition=Collana Assise. Quaedam|publisher=La Scuola di Pitagora|year=2013|isbn=978-88-654-2231-1}}
- (presentazione di) Il cammino della Comunità, Roma, Edizioni di Comunità, 2013.
- Se Venezia muore, Collana Vele, Torino, Einaudi, 2014. {{ISBN|978-88-062-1826-3}}.
- Costituzione! Perché attuarla è meglio che cambiarla, Torino, Einaudi, 2016. {{ISBN|978-88-062-3071-5}}.
- Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggio, città, diritti civili, Torino, Einaudi, 2017.
- Cieli d'Europa. Cultura, creatività, uguaglianza, UTET, 2017.
= As editor =
- {{Cite book|title=Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana (Collana Grandi Opere)|year=1984|publisher=Einaudi|location=Torino|isbn=978-88-065-7844-2}}
- Civiltà dei Romani, Electa, Milano, 1990–1993.
- I Greci. Storia, cultura, arte, società, Torino, Einaudi, 1996–2002.
References
External links
- {{cite web|url=https://www.sns.it/ugov/persone/salvatore-settis|title=Biography - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa}}
- [http://calabria.blogosfere.it/2008/11/salvatore-settis-perche-la-gelmini-fa-un-buco-nellacqua.html Intervento] on Riforma Gelmini
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5yiOyVsThg Interview] on Annozero - 16 April 2009
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Pisa
Category:Italian archaeologists
Category:Italian art historians
Category:Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Category:Viareggio Prize winners
Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Category:People from the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria