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Gianni Carlo Sciolla (1940 - 2017) was an Italian art historian, academic and art critic. Born in Biella in 1940, he studied in Turin and lived in the Piedmontese capital for a long time and was full professor of History of Art Criticism at the University from 1970 to 1990 and then, after six years of teaching at the universities of Udine and Pavia, again starting from 1996 as holder of the chair of History of modern art at the University and of Methodology of historical-artistic research at the Dams (Artistic, musical and entertainment disciplines), of which he was also president; in recent years he had moved to the University of Milan. Read the full biography

Gianni Carlo Sciolla (1940 - 2017) was an Italian art historian, academic and art critic. Born in Biella in 1940, he studied in Turin and lived in the Piedmontese capital for a long time and was full professor of History of Art Criticism at the University from 1970 to 1990 and then, after six years of teaching at the universities of Udine and Pavia, again starting from 1996 as holder of the chair of History of modern art at the University and of Methodology of historical-artistic research at the Dams (Artistic, musical and entertainment disciplines), of which he was also president; in recent years he had moved to the University of Milan. Expert in methodology and history of twentieth-century art criticism (in 2013 he won the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for art criticism) and in artistic and periegetic literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he addressed his studies in various other fields, including drawing, painting and sculpture in Lombardy between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Rembrandt and the art of the Netherlands in the first half of the seventeenth century, Renaissance sculpture in central Italy and the cultural heritage of Aosta, Biella and Lodi. In 2001 he founded the International Center of Art Magazines in Turin and four years later the magazine «Annali di critic d'arte» which he continued to direct. For many years he also presided over the Italian Society of the History of Art Criticism (Sisca) of which he was one of the founding fathers. In 2014 he received honorary citizenship of the municipality of Netro (BI), the town where he is originally from, for having made local art and the town known throughout the world with his studies.