biography
pronunciation:
[morelee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1816–91)
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| biography:
| Art critic, born in Verona, N Italy. He studied natural philosophy and medicine at Munich University. Active in the Italian liberation movement, in 1861 he became a deputy for Bergamo in the first free Italian parliament, and later a senator (1873). From that year he began writing art criticism and, in 1880, published in German Italian Masters in German Galleries (trans 1883). This was followed by Critical Studies of Italian Painters (1890–3, also originally in German). His criticism concentrated on attribution, which he claimed to have reduced to scientific principles - the Morellian method. He was also instrumental in the passing of an act, later named after him, which gave state protection to important works of art. |
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