Olga Raggio
Olga Raggio (5 February 1926 – 24 January 2009) was an art historian and curator who worked with the
Early life
Olga Raggio was born in Rome on 5 February 1926. Her father was Italian, while her mother was Russian.[1]
Raggio graduated from the
Career
Metropolitan Museum
In 1950, Raggio received a
Raggio's curatorial career climbed steadily, from assistant curator in 1954 to full curator in 1968, and chair of the department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts between 1971 and 2001.[4] Her responsibilities encompassed the entirety of the museum's art collections dating between 1400 and 1900 other than painting or drawing. She was mentioned as a candidate to succeed Thomas Hoving as the Metropolitan Museum's director in 1977, but the post went to Philippe de Montebello.[3]
Raggio's research concentrated on Renaissance and Baroque sculpture, notably
Raggio organised some of the museum's most famous exhibitions including The Splendour of Dresden (1978) and The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art (1983).
Raggio retired as Distinguished Research Curator on 31 December 2008.[4]
Academic
In 1964, Raggio became an adjunct faculty at the
Later life
Olga Raggio died of cancer on 24 January 2009, aged 82, in the
Bibliography
- Raggio, Olga (1958). "The Myth of Prometheus: Its Survival and Metamorphoses up to the Eighteenth Century". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 21 (1–2): 44–62. JSTOR 750486.
- Raggio, Olga (December 1964). "The Vélez Blanco Patio: An Italian Renaissance Monument From Spain". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 23 (4): 141–176. JSTOR 3258177.
- Raggio, Olga (February 1967). "Two Great Portraits by Lemoyne and Pigalle". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 25 (6): 219–229. JSTOR 3258329.
- Raggio, Olga (1981). "Tiziano Aspetti's Reliefs with Scenes of the Martyrdom of St. Daniel of Padua". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 16: 131–146. S2CID 191390032.
- Olga Raggio; Antoine M. Wilmering (1999). The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-925-3.
- Abramitis, Dorothy; Raggio, Olga (2005). "A Giustiniani Bacchus and François Duquesnoy". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 40.
- Raggio, Olga (2006). "Two Allegorical Sculptures by Francesco Ladatte". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 41: 121–131. S2CID 191382730.
References
- ^ "Olga Raggio, "detective" del Metropolitan". Corriere Della Sera (in Italian). 11 February 2009.
- ^ Glueck, Grace (13 October 1971). "Art Curator has 30,000 Friends". The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Fox, Margalit (6 February 2009). "Olga Raggio, a Scholar and Art Curator, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Wardropper, Ian (Summer 2009). "In Memoriam: Olga Raggio" (PDF). Alumni Newsletter (45). New York University Institute of Fine Arts: 18.
- ^ Lucey, Fr. Beatus (Spring 2009). "The Tale of Flora & Priapus" (PDF). Delbarton Today: 19–20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18.
- ^ Lopez, Rosemary (27 March 1977). "Found in a Garden: 2 Bernini Statues". The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
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