F. Pedrocco Biography
Filippo Pedrocco (1951 - 2014) was curator at the Ca' Rezzonico Museum in Venice and mainly dealt with Venetian art. Terisio Pignatti's favorite student, he graduated with him and immediately began working at the Department of Art History of the Venetian university. In 1978 he became curator of the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Correr Museum, for which in the following years he created, together with Pignatti, the first catalog of drawings. With the master he also signed numerous monographs on Venetian painters: Giorgione, Titian, Veronese. But it is to eighteenth-century Venice that he dedicates his greatest energy. The monumental monograph, created together with Massimo Gemin, on his beloved Giambattista Tiepolo, those on Michele Marieschi and Antonio Guardi together with Federico Montecuccoli degli Erri, the writings on landscape artists, the volumes on Palazzo Labia and Ca' Vendramin. His bibliography is, moreover, endless and he alternates scientific works with popular ones, demonstrating his flexible ease of writing. In 1983 he also took over the management of Ca' Rezzonico. The rebirth of the museum with the important restoration works, completed in 2001, bears his signature, as do the major exhibitions that take place there, bringing it to the international spotlight. Think for example of Splendors of the Venetian Eighteenth Century, organized together with the National Gallery in Washington and the Royal Academy in London (1995), and above all the memorable monograph on Giambattista Tiepolo with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1996).