CONTRIBUTORS MARCO CARMINATI Art historian and professional journalist, he has been working for the Sole 24 Ore’s cultural supplement Domenica since 1990. He is in charge of the art, collecting and cultural heritage pages. He was awarded the Viareggio Journalism Prize for the article announcing the recovery of Caravaggio’s certificate of baptism in Milan.
ANTONIO CARNEVALE He is in charge of the cultural pages of Panorama weekly magazine and is one of the founders of the Conceptualfinearts.com website, a non-profit research project exploring the connections between antique and contemporary art. In 2013, he wrote a book devoted to the cultural heritage system titled “Scene da un patrimonio”.
CESARE MARIA CUNACCIA Art critic, writer and journalist, Cesare Maria Cunaccia has written several books on the Italian and European cultural heritage. He collaborates with many prestigious magazines, including AD Italia, Vogue Italia and Uomo Vogue, and Style. He is also a professor and art exhibition curator.
PAOLA D’AGOSTINO Director of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, she is an expert on Renaissance and Baroque sculpture. She served as the Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator in European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. Previously, she was a senior research associate in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She earned an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and holds a Ph.D. from the Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’.
ARTURO GALANSINO In 2015, after nearly ten years spent abroad, he was appointed General Director of Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi Foundation. 38 years old, he has built a brilliant career working first in Paris, at the Musée du Louvre, and then in London, at the National Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts. Galansino has studied in Italy, where he received a PhD in Art History and Criticism.
MIMMO JODICE Mimmo Jodice is born in Naples where he lives and works. His name is well known in the history of Contemporary Photography. When he was very young he was passionately interested in arts, classical music and jazz. In the early 1960’s he discovered Photography as a new means of expressions .
TOMASO MONTANARI Born in Florence in 1971. He teaches modern art history at the University of Naples Federico II. He is an expert on seventeenthcentury European art and has written about one hundred essays about it. Among his bestknown books are A cosa serve Michelangelo? (Einaudi 2011); Le pietre e il popolo (minimum fax 2013); Privati del patrimonio (Einaudi 2015).
SERGIO RISALITI Graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Art. He has curated exhibitions in Florence and Italy, and is a writer and journalist. He is a regular contributor to “Il Venerdì - la Repubblica”, “Il Corriere Fiorentino”, and “Arte Mondadori”. He is an honorary member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.
EIKE SCHMIDT Eike Schmidt, whose academic studies comprise over 180 publications, including books and articles, has been a curator and museum director since 2001 at The National Gallery of Arts in Washington, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In eight instances, his museum purchases were listed as “acquisitions of the year” by the art magazine Apollo. In 2008 and 2009, he was the managing director of Europe in the Sculpture Department at Sotheby’s auction house in London. Since November 2015, Eike Schmidt has been the director of the Uffizi Galleries. At the end of his term, in 2020, he will take over as director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
TIMOTHY VERDON Monsignor Timothy Verdon, priest of the Florence Cathedral and art historian trained at Yale University (USA), is director of the Opera del Duomo museum and author of its innovative installation. Author of numerous books and articles on Christian art and iconography, Verdon has been a consultant to the Vatican and a Fellow of the Harvard University center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Villa I Tatti. He also teaches for Stanford University in Florence.