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.