Eduard Alexandr Safarik (Šafařík) (19 May 1928 – 15 August 2015)[1] [2] was an Italian art historian of Czech descent. He focused on Italian art, especially Venetian paintings of the 16th and 17th century, and Jan Kupecký.[3] He authored several monographs and many articles, catalogues and encyclopedic entries.[3]
In the 1950s Safarik was the director of the pinacotheca of Kroměříž Archbishop's Palace, where he discovered several masterpieces, including a painting by Paolo Veronese.[3] In 1957–1968 he worked in the National Gallery in Prague, and after that in Bibliotheca Hertziana and Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome.[3] In 1971 Safarik became the director of the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, and in the 1980s he was the director of the Colonna Art Gallery.[3]