In the history of art, Giacomo Boni is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Giacomo Boni as Italian archaeologist and architect (1859-1925).
Giacomo Boni was born at Venice in 1859. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as anthropologist, art historian and archaeologist.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
Recognition followed: Order of the Red Eagle, grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Giacomo Boni died in 1925, aged 66. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Order of the Red Eagle
- grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
