Paolo Bolpagni


Paolo Bolpagni is an Italian art historian, critic and curator.

Life

Bolpagni was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy. He graduated in letters from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia, and then completed a doctorate in history of art at the same university in Milan. Since 2010 he has taught at the Brescia campus of the university. He also teaches at the Università degli Studi eCampus.
From 2008 to 2011, and again from 2013, he was director of the in Concesio, in the province of Brescia, and in 2016 became director of the Fondazione Centro Studi sull'Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti in Lucca, in Tuscany. He won the Premio Sulmona for history of art in 2013; he is the youngest person to have won the prize.

Work

Bolpagni has written on the twentieth-century artist, founder of the, and has also published work on the interaction between music and the visual arts. In 2011–2012, he created a channel on YouTube where he presented short videos on the history of contemporary art.

Publications