Eduard Carbonell i Esteller

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Carbonell and the second or maternal family name is Esteller; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".

Eduard Carbonell i Esteller (20 January 1946 – 18 August 2025) was a Spanish art historian.

Life and career

Esteller was born on 20 January 1946.[1] He studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Barcelona and at the Complutense University of Madrid. He went to Italy to further his studies and later obtained a doctorate in Art History from the University of Barcelona.[2]

For 16 years he was a professor at the UAB.[3] He was a professor of History of Medieval Art at the University of Girona and the UAB.[4] Between 1988 and 1994 he was Director General of Cultural Heritage of the Generalitat of Catalonia. He participated in the creation of the Museum Law of 1990 (17/1990) and in the theoretical conception of the MNAC, an art history museum that was a public entity subject to private law. He was one of those responsible for the exhibition on Caravaggio's work, which took place in 2005.[5][6]

He was the Director of the National Art Museum of Catalonia, between 1994 and 2005.[7]

Carbonell i Esteller died on 18 August 2025, at the age of 79.[8]

References

  1. ^ Fallece el catedrático de historia del Arte y exdirector del MNAC Eduard Carbonell (in Spanish)
  2. ^ "Eduard Carbonell Esteller". www.udg.edu. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Julio González". IVAM. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  4. ^ Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture. BRILL. 7 May 2012. ISBN 978-90-04-22832-0.
  5. ^ "The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation presented the first part of the catalogue raisonné". Fundació Gala - Salvador Dalí. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  6. ^ Esteller, Eduard Carbonell i; Catalunya, Museu Nacional d'Art de; Sureda, Joan (1997). Medieval treasures of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Lunwerg. ISBN 978-84-7782-461-9.
  7. ^ "Muere Eduard Carbonell, exdirector del MNAC". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 18 August 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  8. ^ Palau, Maria. "Mor Eduard Carbonell, cervell del gran MNAC". El Punt Avui (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 August 2025.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.