Vittorio Sgarbi hospitalized in intensive care due to respiratory failure

The art critic has been hospitalized since yesterday at the Gemelli hospital in Rome due to respiratory failure. The first bulletin is signed by the director of the Emergency Department Massimo Antonelli

Great concern for Vittorio Sgarbi's health. The art critic was rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome on Wednesday due to respiratory failure and is hospitalized in intensive care. In the evening the first medical bulletin arrived: "His conditions, although critical, are currently stable", we read in the note signed by Massimo Antonelli, director of the Emergency, Anesthesiology and Resuscitation Sciences Department at Gemelli. On Thursday afternoon, daughter Evelina arrived at Gemelli and had the opportunity to enter the intensive care unit for a few minutes. "Evelina wanted to see her father", explained the woman's lawyer, Lorenzo Iacobbi, before leaving the hospital, "as soon as she found out she came to Rome. The conditions are currently critical, we hope they will improve in the next few hours". Then he underlined: "We have been fighting for more than a year so that the man and not the character is protected" (Vittorio Sgarbi, his story between art criticism, politics and arguments on TV).

Previous hospitalizations

of 2025, when Sgarbi faced a profound depressive syndrome that led him to periods of isolation, marked weight loss and refusal to eat. It was Sgarbi himself who said he had reached a weight of 59 kilos. He then also spoke about that depression in an interview: "Just as we have the body, so there are also the shadows of the mind, of thoughts, ghosts that are with us and that I cannot push away. I had never suffered from it. It seems to me like a train that has stopped at an unknown station". In March 2021 Sgarbi revealed that he was being treated for prostate cancer, treated at the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute in Rome. In 2016, however, he was urgently hospitalized in Modena for a heart problem: while traveling he had suffered ischemia and therefore underwent coronary angioplasty.

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The latest public appearances

Among Sgarbi's latest public appearances was last May in Ferrara, where he participated in the party for the 150th anniversary of Corriere della Sera. In July he was a guest in Bergamo of La Milanesiana, the cultural festival directed by his sister Elisabetta. In August, however, he was in Rovereto to outline the direction of the Mart museum, of which he is president. In recent months the critic has also been at the center of a legal battle started by his daughter Evelina, who presented a request to the civil court of Rome for the appointment of a support administrator for her father, claiming that Sgarbi is no longer capable of managing his person and his interests independently.

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