BUSSAGLI, Mario

BUSSAGLI, Mario. Siena 23.9.1917 — Frosinone, Lazio 14.8.1988. Italian Art Historian. Professor in Rome. Studies under Tucci at Rome (graduated 1940 with a diss. on Gandhāra art. After war Docent at La Sapienza (Rome), first also librarian, from 1957 professore straordinario di Storia dell’ Arte dell’ India e dell’ Asia Centrale (a new chair) at the same, retired 1987, but died soon. Active as editor and populariser. Married, at least one son.

Publications: “Note sulla “fonte di Trogo” per gli avvenimenti indiani”, RAL Ser. 8:2, 1947, 10-30; “The Archaeological Aspect of Asiatic Contacts with Italy”, E&W 1, 1950, 13-17; “Royauté, guerre et fécondité: A propos d’une monnaie kuṣaṇa”, RHR 140, 1951, 129-154; “The Apostle Thomas and India”, E&W 3, 1952, 88-94; “An important document on the relations between Rome and India. The Statuette of St. Peter discovered at Charsadda”, E&W 4, 1953, 247-254; “Search for a lost source: Indian events in Trogus Pompeius”, E&W 7, 1956, 229-242; “The Problem of Kaniṣka as seen by the Art Historian”, Basham (ed.), Papers on the Date of Kaniṣka. Leiden 1968, 39-56.

– “L’Influsso Classico ed Iranico sull’ Arte dell’ Asia Centrale”, Rivista dell’ Istituto Nazionale d’Archaeologia e Storia dell Arte (RINASA) N.S. AII, 1953, 171-262 & sep. Roma 1954; “Similarities between the figurative arts in the East and West”, E&W 6, 1955, 9-25; “Osservationi sulla persistenza delle forme ellenistiche nell’ arte del Gandhāra”, RINASA N.S. 5-6, 1956-57, 149-247

Arte Iranica. Iranian Art. Catalogue. 305 p. 114 pl. Milano 1956.

L’Arte del Gandhara in Pakistan e i suoi incontri con l’arte dell’ Asia Centrale. Catalogo delle Mostra. 129 p. 64 pl. Rome 1958; L’Arte del Gandhara. 284 p. 278 ill. Turin 1984.

– “Letterature indoeuropee dell’Asia centrale”, Civiltà dell’Oriente 2, 1957, 471-486.

Profili dell’ India antica e moderna. 297 p. 21 pl. Turin 1959; Che cosa ha veramente detto Buddha. 148 p. Rome 1968; Eros Indiano. 108 p. 48 pl. R. 1973.

Painting of Central Asia. 135 p. Cleveland 1963 / La peinture de l’Asie centrale. 138 p. 69+6 ill. Geneva 1963; Architettura orientale. 1-2. Venice 1973-81, also transl. into English.

Culture e civiltà dell’Asia Centrale. 319 p. Turin 1970.

With C. Sivaramamurthy: 5000 Years of the Art of India. 335 p. N.Y. & Bombay 1973.

Indica et Serindica. Scritti di storia dell’arte dell’India e dell’Asia Centrale. 12+456 p. 17 pl. Studi Orientali 11. Rome 1992.

Also wrote on Western art.

Sources: *E&W 38, 1988, 317-321 with bibliography;*L. Petech, RSO 62, 1988, 139-141; L’eredità umana e scientifica di Mario Bussagli. Il novissimo Ramusio 27. Rome 2021 (with several articles dealing with his life and work); briefly in Italian Wikipedia.

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