Lorenza Trucchi

Lorenza Trucchi (born 11 January 1922) is an Italian journalist and art critic. Trucchi was born on Monaco. She is the daughter of Olga Cassini and Lorenzo Trucchi, a well-known surgeon who practiced his profession in the Principality.

Career
Since 1950 she collaborated assiduously with the newspapers: Il Momento, Il Gazzettino, Il Corriere mercantile and with the periodicals: Leggere, Il Taccuino delle Arti, Giovedi, Art Dossier.

In 1955 she began to write for La Fiera Letteraria and from 1967 to 1977 she was the owner of the weekly column Arte per tutti on Momento Sera. From 1961 to 1968 she was responsible for the art insert of the magazine L'Europa letteraria directed by Giancarlo Vigorelli. She was a member of the Expert Commission of the Visual Arts Sector of the Venice Biennials in 1988 and 1990.

She held the chair of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in L'Aquila and Rome from 1969 to 1994. From 1995 to June 2001 she was the president of the XII National Art Quadrennial in Rome.

She turned 100 in January 2022.

Publications

 * Qualche ritratto da Cézanne a Pollock, Carocci 1961
 * Carmelina, Vanni Scheiwiller, Milano 1964
 * Dubuffet, De Luca 1965; Francis Bacon, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano 1975;
 * Thames and Hudson, Londra, Abrams New York 1975,
 * Celiv, Parigi 1975-1989
 * Franco Sarnari, Vallecchi 1983
 * Arte per tutti, Edizioni della Cometa 1992
 * Francis Bacon, De Luca Edizioni d'Arte 2005