Study Conference Rodolfo Pallucchini and 20th-Century Arts

This study conference has been organised as part of the initiatives promoted by the Giorgio Cini Foundation and the Regional Committee for the Celebrations of the birth of Rodolfo Pallucchini (1908-1989). From 1956 the illustrious scholar held the chair in the History of Modern Art at the University of Padua. He also founded the review Arte Veneta, which under his editorship soon became a major European academic publication; from 1972 he was director of the Institute of Art History at the Giorgio Cini Foundation.

The conference will focus on the figure of Rodolfo Pallucchini, exploring for the first time his varied interests in contemporary art. Although it is well known that Pallucchini was Secretary General of the Venice Biennale from 1948 to 1956, few people are aware of the scholar’s considerable activity as a critic from the 1930s in the field of contemporary art, to which he dedicated great energy with at times surprising results.