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Philippe Daverio is dead. the art critic and historian, 71 years old, is passed away tonight atMilan Cancer Institute. To make the news public, the director and director of the Franco Parenti Theater, Andree Ruth Shammah. Daverio, professor and essayist, former Councilor for Culture of the Milan City Council, was 71 years old. “His brother wrote to me this morning to tell me that Philippe passed away tonight,” Shammah wrote.
Philippe Daverio: a life for art
Daverio, was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, in France, October 17, 1949 from a French mother, Aurelia Hauss, and an Italian father, Napoleone Daverio, a builder. It was the fourth of six siblings. After moving to Italy, Philippe Daverio studied at Bocconi in Milan, a faculty he left without obtaining a degree to open his first gallery in Milan, the city that will become his city. In those years he discovered his vocation as an editor and, above all, popularizer of art. “I am not a doctor because I did not graduate, I was enrolled in Bocconi in 1968-1969, in those years we went to university to study and not to graduate” was one of his most famous phrases.
Among his contributions to the art world, there are also several outstanding publications. With the publisher Rizzoli in 2011 he published the book ‘The imagined museum’, in 2012 ‘The long century of modernity’, in 2013 ‘Looking far to see closely’ and at the end of 2014 ‘The broken century of the avant-garde’. For the same publisher, the volumes ‘La buona strada’, ‘L’arte in tavola’ and ‘The game of painting’ were released in 2015. The last volume, again for the Milanese publishing house, in 2019, ‘My Europe in small steps’. Among the various and prestigious positions accumulated over the years, also the jury of Campiello Award, one of the most prestigious Italian literary awards.
As a professor of art history he taught classes at the IULM in Milan, while as an expert in design history he was a professor at Polytechnic from the city of Milan while until 2016 he held the position of professor of industrial design at the University of Palermo. Also in Sicily he had collaborated with Vittorio Sgarbi, as mayor of Salemi, to various cultural and artistic initiatives.
Passepartout and Daverio’s notoriety on television
Daverio was also a well-known television personality. Among the programs in which he had starred, in Rai, on subjects related to the world of art “,The capital of Philippe Daverio“and the famous”Passepartout “ with which he had brought art into the homes of Italians through the small screen. In recent years his participation in “Bare the news“, the satirical program by Antonio Ricci broadcast in Channel 5. Yesterday morning, his latest report on the curiosities and secrets of the Paris Opera, the Mona Lisa and the anecdotes about Raffaello Sanzio and Claude Monet was published on the social profiles of the program.
Reactions to the disappearance of Philippe Daverio
Already different reactions after the news of Daverio’s death. “My friend … your silence forever is a heartbreaking cry this morning,” he wrote. Shammah on Instagram, reporting the death of his friend. too Emanuele Fiano, a member of parliament for the Democratic Party, expressed himself on Facebook: “Andree Ruth Shammah unfortunately gives us the news of the death of Philippe Daverio, a man of great culture, sympathy and humanity. A great loss for Milan and for everyone. I am very sad for his death.. Let the earth be light to him. “The president of the Milan provincial Anpi, Roberto CenatiInstead, he spoke of “a very serious loss for the country, for Milan, for culture, for everyone.”
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