Graziano Gasparini
Illustration — Graziano Gasparini in 1954. Graziano Gasparini (31 July 1924 – 30 November 2019) was a Venezuelan architect, photographer, painter and historian, sometimes referred to as Graciano Gasparini (ie using a Spanish version of his first name).
Graziano Gasparini
Armando Planchart · Archivo Gio Ponti Caracas. Fundación Anala y Armando Planchart · Public domain
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- Graziano Gasparini was born on 31 July 1924. · Gorizia.
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- Venezuela · Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- architect · art historian
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- Italian · Spanish
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Illustration — Graziano Gasparini in 1954. Graziano Gasparini (31 July 1924 – 30 November 2019) was a Venezuelan architect, photographer, painter and historian, sometimes referred to as Graciano Gasparini (ie using a Spanish version of his first name).
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Graziano Gasparini was an Italian and Venezuelan architect and art historian. Born in Gorizia, the architect died in Caracas. Graziano Gasparini worked for Central University of Venezuela.
Languages used include Italian and Spanish. Works by the architect are held at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Graziano Gasparini received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Gasparini was born in Gorizia, on the Italian–Slovenian border, in 1924. After completing his education in Venice, he worked for Carlo Scarpa in connection with the Biennale. After a break caused by the Second World War, the famous exhibition resumed in 1948, and Gasparini first visited Venezuela that year while promoting it. He settled in Caracas and pursued a career as an architect. He specialised in restoring Spanish Colonial architecture, while developing a parallel career as an architectural historian. The buildings he worked on include the Bolivarian Museum in Caracas, which was inaugurated in 1960. His scholarship was recognised by the award of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987. He died in Caracas, aged 95.
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Gasparini's first wife was the Venezuelan sociologist Olga Lagrange, who died in 1971. Some of his publications were written jointly with his second wife, the American anthropologist Luise Margolies.
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His brother Paolo Gasparini (1934, Gorizia, Italy) was trained as a photographer within the Italian neorealist current, at the beginning of the fifties. In 1955 he settled in Venezuela.
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Graziano Gasparini was born at Gorizia.
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Graziano Gasparini died at Caracas.
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- 1.Murió Graziano Gasparini, restaurador de monumentos históricos en Venezuela. El Pitazo. 30 November 2019.
- 2.Graziano Gasparini. Prodavinci.
- 3.RESEÑA SOBRE LA PROTECCIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO HISTÓRICO Y ARTÍSTICO VENEZOLANO. revista de patrimonio (revistadepatrimonio.es).
- 4.John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Graziano Gasparini. gf.org.
- 5.Paolo Gasparini, fotografo.
- 6.Book review. Science. 1980.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Templos coloniales de Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini. 1959
- Caracas a través de su Arquitectura. Graziano Gasparini and Juan Pedro Posani (1969)
- Book review. Science. 1980.
- Las fortificaciones del período hispánico en Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini (1985)
- Arquitectura colonial iberoamericana. Graziano Gasparini, editor (1997)
- Arquitectura Indigena de Venezuela. Graziano Gasparini and Luise Margolies (2005). An excerpt La Vivienda Colectiva de los Yanomami appears in "Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America": Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 1.
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