Mario Bussagli
Mario Bussagli (23 September 1917 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian orientalist.
Biography
Mario Bussagli was born in Siena. A pupil of Giuseppe Tucci,[1] with whom he discussed his thesis on the art of Gandhara, he dealt with Oriental themes through the study of the history of art and civilisations of India and Central Asia.
He was first a librarian and then the first lecturer in Italy of Art History of India and Central Asia and Art History of the Far East at the Institute of Oriental Studies at Sapienza University of Rome.[2]
In 1957, the Giorgio Cini Foundation entrusted him with the direction of the Oriental Art and Culture section of the Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte, which he kept until 1967 when the work came to an end.
His studies were not limited to oriental culture. Bussagli's name is also linked to a successful book on Hieronymus Bosch, which has been translated into many European languages.
He was also a keen spectator of Italian cultural life, collaborating with the daily press, especially with Il Tempo.
Mario Bussagli died in Frosinone.
Major publications
- Letterature indoeuropee dell'Asia centrale (1957)
- Profili dell'India antica e moderna (1959)
- Culture protostoriche e arte delle steppe (1961)
- Arte del Gandhara (1965)
- Bosch (1966)
- Cultura e civilta dell'Asia Centrale (1970)
- Architettura orientale (1981)
- I re magi: realtà storica e tradizione magica (1985; with Maria Grazia Chiappori)
- Attila (1986)
- Arte e magia a Siena (1991)
Notes
- ↑ "Mario Bussagli," East and West, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1/4, pp. 317–21.
- ↑ Napoleone, Caterina (1999). "Bussagli Mario." In: Enciclopedia di Roma: dalla origini all'anno Duemila. Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, p. 216.
References
- Petech, Luciano (1988). "Mario Bussagli (1917-1988)," Rivista degli studi orientali, Vol. LXII, No. 1/4, pp. 139–41.
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