The academic and art critic Antonio Bonet Correa , one of the most important figures in the history of art in Spain, died on Friday at the age of 94, as announced by the Spanish Committee for Art History, an entity of which he was president of honor.
Bonet (A Coruña, October 20, 1925), who was also professor emeritus of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, was president of the Royal Academy of San Fernando between 2009 and 2015 , and later held the position of honorary director . He was married to Monique Planes Durand and had three children.
The historian was named member of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Prado Museum in 2003, and was the honorary trustee of the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation since 2009.
His career began in 1948 when he graduated in Philosophy and Letters from Santiago de Compostela, shortly afterwards he would travel to Paris to study at the Institut d'Historie de l'Art and graduated in Museology from the Louvre School. Between 1952 and 1957 he is an assistant professor at the Sorbonne in Paris , according to the Prado Museum website.
In this last year, he received a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University, and received the Menéndez Pelayo National Prize. Since 1959 he is an adjunct professor of art history at the Complutense University and in 1962 and 1963 he teaches at the Higher School of Architecture in Madrid.
In 1973 he held the chair of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Complutense University of Madrid and the following year he was an extraordinary professor at the University of Strasbourg. From 1981 to 1983 he was vice-rector of the Complutense University.
He was an academic, among others, of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, the Royal Academy of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary in Seville, of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George, of the National Academy of Fine Arts of Lisbon and of the National Academy of Argentina.
He was also a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), AICA and the International Committee for the History of Art and president of the Board of Qualification, Valuation and Export of Spanish Historical Heritage Assets.
Throughout his career he published numerous studies on Spanish American art, urbanism and Spanish Baroque and was curator of numerous exhibitions such as the one carried out with the funds of the Contemporary Art Collection entitled " Figuraciones Madrileñas. Años 70 " (1996).
Among the messages of condolence for his death, the Royal Academy of San Fernando has defined Bonet Correa as "the last of the great masters of his generation".
"For many generations of art historians, he has been a luminous and dedicated mentor, the highest benchmark in numerous fields of knowledge," he noted on his Twitter profile.
The ex-minister Javier Solana, president of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Prado, believes that the gallery "loses one of his best friends", and the world one of the "great masters of art history", he lamented on Twitter.
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