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The art historian Philippe Daverio passed away tonight at the Cancer Institute in Milan. This was announced by the director and director of Franco Parenti Andree Ruth Shammah. Professor and essayist, former Councilor for Culture of the Milan City Council, he was 71 years old. “Her brother wrote to me this morning to tell me that Philippe passed away tonight,” Shammah told ANSA.
“My friend … your silence forever is a heartbreaking cry this morning,” Shammah wrote on Instagram, reporting on social media the death of his friend Philippe Daverio. Emanuele Fiano from Pd commented: “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 #Milano and for everyone. I am very saddened by his disappearance. May the earth be light to him ”.
“A very serious loss – added Roberto Cenati, president of the Milan Provincial Anpi – for the country, for Milan, for culture, for all of us.”
“An intellectual of extraordinary humanity, a skilled disseminator of culture, a sensitive and refined art historian. With sagacity and passion, he accompanied Italians and Italians in the fascinating discovery of architecture, landscapes, creative expression, artists and the sources of our cultural heritage. All this was Philippe Daverio, a man whose great intelligence and critical spirit I have always appreciated and that we all lack ”. This has been said by the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, upon learning of the death of Philippe Daverio.
“I am very sorry for Philippe Daverio, he was a great art historian and has shown that he can make a television about art of the highest quality”, were the words of the Minister of Economy Roberto Gualtieri during an interview with Agorà Estate on Rai3.
A memory on Facebook also from the President of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana: “Brilliant, in some ways unique. Passion and competition have characterized its existence, always marked by an energy and a desire to disrupt. Lombardy was in his heart and he demonstrated it a thousand times with essays, novels, videos and many other expressions. The Region and the Lombards will always remember him with affection and with that familiarity that he knew how to transmit in an incomparable way ”. “Thank you for all the teacher, rest in peace,” concluded the governor.
Words also moved by Vittorio Sgarbi. “Art criticism had indecipherable and distant languages but Daverio had this role of great storyteller, bringing art closer to people and it was without a doubt his most recognizable trait. We were like brothers in a world of wolves, we both did political activity but without it becoming art politics. He was not political but he was much more political than us ”. These are Sgarbi’s words to Adnkronos.
A moving thought and prayer for Philippe Daverio. A great man of culture, capable with his unmistakable style of telling Italians about the extraordinary artistic heritage of our country … A great man who, as Rudyard Kipling writes, knew how to “speak with crowds and maintain his virtue, or walk with the Kings, without losing contact with ordinary people. ”Have a good trip, Philippe. We will not forget you.” The leader of the Lega, Matteo Salvini, says it in a note.
He was born on October 17, 1949 in Mulhouse, Alsace. Daverio, from 1961 to 1967, attended the French scientific high school. Then, the arrival in Italy to attend university: in Milan he enrolled in the career of Economics and Commerce at Bocconi University. Then the beginning of the adventure in the art world.
Philippe Daverio has always called himself an art historian. The large television audience met him in 1999 as a correspondent for the program Art’è en Raitre. The following year he was the author and presenter of the Art.tù program, then from 2002 to 2012 author and presenter of Passepartout, an art and culture program that became Il Capitale, and of the 2011 program Emporio Daverio for RAI 5. As a gallery owner and La publisher has published about fifty titles. Many of his scientific and popular publications. Daverio has worked as a professor at various universities. In 2013 he received from the President of the Republic the title of Knight of Arts and Letters and the Gold Medal of Merit from the Minister of Cultural Heritage; Also in 2013 he was awarded the Legion of Honor by the President of the French Republic. In September 2014, he became artistic director of the Gran Museo del Duomo in Milan, and since 2015 a member of the Scientific Committee of the Pinacoteca di Brera and the National Braidense Library.
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