Dario del Bufalo

Last updated
Dario del Bufalo
Born (1958-01-30) January 30, 1958 (age 65)
Rome, Italy
Occupation
  • Architect
  • antiquity expert
  • architect
  • restorer.
LanguageItalian

Dario del Bufalo (Rome, 30 January 1958) is an Italian mosaic and antiquity expert, architect, author, and restorer.

Contents

Education

Del Bufalo graduated with Laude in 1987 with a PhD in Architecture from Sapienza University in Rome.

Career

From 1998 to 2007 he taught a course on the "History of architectural techniques and ancient materials" at the University of Lecce. He was President of the Università dei Marmorari  [ it ] in Rome on the occasion of the sixth centenary of its foundation (2006). [1]

Del Bufalo is author of many books and titles about Roman art and architecture, old coloured marbles and sculpture.

He is the author or co-author of numerous other volumes, including the museum catalogue for the 2021-2022 exhibition Il falso nell'arte. Alceo Dossena e la scultura italiana del Rinascimento (The false in art. Alceo Dossena and Italian Renaissance sculpture) at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. He has written on the subject for The Art Newspaper . [2]

Del Bufalo is also noted for having restored the Castello della Cecchignola  [ it ] in Rome. [3] [4]

Caligula mosaic

Del Bufalo gained widespread coverage when he rediscovered an antiquity featured in his book, a marble mosaic that had been part of the flooring on one of the Roman Emperor Caligula's pleasure boats, the Nemi ships which were more like floating buildings than boats and never meant to sail. [5] [6] Following Caligula's assassination in AD 41 the boats were sunk on the orders of the Roman Senate and the Praetorian guard.

Lake Nemi (30 km (19 mi) south of Rome) was drained by Benito Mussolini in the 1920s and the ships became visible again. A museum was founded and built above the vessels. The museum and the ships were destroyed by fire during World War II. This particular piece which survived went missing in the 1960s. It fell into private hands and was eventually sold by an aristocratic Italian family to New York City antiques dealer Helen Fioratti and her husband Nereo. [7] The piece, which served as the top of a coffee table in the Fioratti's apartment was seized by the New York County District Attorney's Office and then repatriated to Italy. [8]

Bibliography

Family life

His daughter is the actress and singer Diana Del Bufalo (b. 1990). [18]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrea Carandini</span>

Andrea Carandini is an Italian professor of archaeology specialising in ancient Rome. Among his many excavations is the villa of Settefinestre.

Giovanni Becatti was an Italian Classical art historian and archaeologist.

Santo Mazzarino was an Italian historian considered to be a leading 20th-century historian of ancient Rome. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ettore Roesler Franz</span> Italian painter and photographer

Ettore Roesler Franz was an Italian painter and photographer. He was among the most prolific Italian watercolorists and vedutisti of the late nineteenth century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Foro Italico</span> Sport venues in Rome, Italy

Foro Italico is a sports complex in Rome, Italy, on the slopes of Monte Mario. It was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti. Inspired by the Roman forums of the imperial age, its design is lauded as a preeminent example of Italian fascist architecture instituted by Mussolini. The purpose of the prestigious project was to get the Olympic Games of 1940 to be organised by fascist Italy and held in Rome.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alessandro Barbero</span> Italian historian and writer (born 1959)

Alessandro Barbero is an Italian historian, novelist and essayist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fountain of Neptune, Rome</span> Fountain in Rome, Italy

The Fountain of Neptune is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located at the north end of the Piazza Navona.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michele Tripisciano</span> Italian sculptor (1860 - 1913)

Michele Tripisciano was an Italian sculptor.

Giuseppe Riccardo "Beppe" Devalle was an Italian painter and collagist, acknowledged as one of the most interesting and highly appreciated artists of the last few decades of Italian painting. He always refuted the prevailing trends of the day so as to create and distinguish his own individual style: this may explain why Devalle has often been overlooked and placed as something of an outsider. He has been known as a master of photomontage and defined as a creator of the 'New Epic Italian style'.

Marcello Landi (1916–1993) was an Italian painter and poet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giovanni Battista Sommariva</span> Italian politician

Giovanni or Gian Battista Sommariva was an Italian politician of the Cisalpine Republic and a notable arts patron.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Polizzello archaeological site</span>

The archaeological site of Polizzello or mountain of Polizzello was a site inhabited probably from the eleventh to the sixth century BC

Eugenio Manni was an Italian ancient historian.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sabucina</span>

The archaeological park of Sabucina, located on the mountain of the same name near Caltanissetta, is an archaeological site in Sicily. The area contains settlements ranging from the Bronze Age to the Roman period.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sebastiano Tusa</span> Italian archaeologist and politician (1952–2019)

Sebastiano Tusa was an Italian archaeologist and politician who served as councilor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region of Italy from 11 April 2018 until his death on 10 March 2019. Tusa also served as a professor of paleontology at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eugenio Gerli</span> Italian architect and designer

Eugenio Gerli was an Italian architect and designer. In an intense working life spanning more than six decades, Eugenio Gerli explored many different areas of his profession. He built villas, apartment blocks, office blocks, factories, banks and stores, and also restored historic buildings. He often completed his works with custom-made interiors and furniture.This diverse range of projects inspired his industrial design and today many have become icons, like the S83 chair, the PS 142 armchair Clamis, the Jamaica cabinet and the Graphis System.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maria Floriani Squarciapino</span> Italian classical archaeologist (1971-2003)

Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003) was an Italian classical archaeologist and professor at La Sapienza University in Rome, known for her work on the Roman port city of Ostia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Studio fotografico Vasari</span>

Studio fotografico Vasari it is one of the oldest Italian companies operating in the field of photography.

Lucia Guerrini (1921–1990) was an Italian classical scholar, archaeologist and professor. After participating in the Phaistos excavations in Crete in 1957, she became an enthusiastic editor of the Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, classica e orientale under the auspices of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli. From the 1950s, she taught Greek and Roman Art at the Sapienza University of Rome, succeeding Bandinelli as Professor of Archaeology and Greek and Roman Art in 1973. Guerrini participated in projects relating to Greek and Roman iconography, Coptic art and the Antinoöpolis excavations in Egypt.

Marco Milanese is an Italian archeologist. He graduated in archeology in 1981 from the University of Genoa. In 1983 he won the 3rd edition of the Bretschneider's Erma International Archeology Prize in Rome, with the work Scavi nell'oppidum pre-romano di Genova.

References

  1. "Dario Del Bufalo". Università dei Marmorari. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  2. "Dario del Bufalo". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  3. "Castello della Cecchignola". 27 October 2020.
  4. "Home". castellodellacecchignola.it.
  5. Magazine, Smithsonian; Kindy, David. "A Mosaic From Caligula's 'Pleasure Boat' Spent 45 Years as a Coffee Table in NYC". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  6. "Roman Emperor Caligula's coffee table". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  7. "2,000-year-old Roman artifact used as coffee table for 50 years". New York Post. 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  8. Desk, ZACHARY ROGERS | The National (2021-11-22). "'Caligula's coffee table', 2,000-year-old artifact found in NYC apartment". WCIV. Retrieved 2022-02-10.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. Del Bufalo, Dario (2020). Precious portraits : small precious stone sculptures of Imperial Rome. [Turin]. ISBN   978-88-422-2427-3. OCLC   1181937244.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. Del Bufalo, Dario (2018). Porphyry : red imperial porphyry : power and religion. Francesca Licordari, Arianna Pujia (2nd edition revised and expanded ed.). Torino: Umberto Allemandi. ISBN   978-88-422-2428-0. OCLC   1037778035.
  11. Del Bufalo, Dario (2016). Murrina vasa : a luxury of imperial Rome. Raniero Gnoli (English edition including Italian texts ed.). Roma. ISBN   978-88-913-0997-6. OCLC   960468269.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. Del Bufalo, Dario (2012). Porphyry : red imperial porphyry : power and religion. Torino: U. Allemandi & C. ISBN   978-88-422-2146-3. OCLC   848744653.
  13. Del Bufalo, Dario (2010). Marmorari magistri romani. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider. ISBN   978-88-8265-582-2. OCLC   671183051.
  14. Del Bufalo, Dario (2007). L'Università dei marmorari di Roma. Italy. Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali. Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider. ISBN   978-88-8265-450-4. OCLC   213458161.
  15. Del Bufalo, Dario (2004). Marbres de couleur : pierres et architecture de l'Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle. Chantal, ... Moiroud. Arles: Actes Sud. ISBN   2-7427-5145-9. OCLC   419786186.
  16. Del Bufalo, Dario (2003). Marmi colorati : le pietre e l'architettura dall'antico al Barocco (1. ed. italiana ed.). Milano: F. Motta. ISBN   88-7179-391-9. OCLC   53878930.
  17. Marmi antichi e pietre dure. Dario Del Bufalo, Faustino Corsi. [Galatina]: Mario Congedo Editore. 2000. ISBN   88-8086-316-9. OCLC   44642750.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  18. Signorini, Mario (2021-02-25). "Diana Del Bufalo curiosità: chi sono i (famosi) genitori e che lavoro fanno". Solonotizie24 (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-02-10.