Landscapes in Light: from Bellini to the Hudson River School

Director of Palazzo Madama in Turin, he is Associate Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Bergamo, where he is also a member of the Doctoral College in Transcultural Humanities. Previously, he directed the Visual Arts Center of Bergamo and taught Diagnostic Techniques for Cultural Heritage at the Catholic University of Milan. He is President of the Ateneo di Scienze Lettere ed Arti of Bergamo and a former member of the Superior Council for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of the Ministry of Culture. He also served as Honorary Director of the Civic Museums of Vicenza. He has curated major exhibitions at national and international venues—from the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome to the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo, to the Guangdong Museum in Guangzhou.

He is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications, including around fifteen monographs, some of which have been translated into ten languages, and he maintains a constant presence in both Italian and international media. He was awarded the honors of Commander (2012) and Grand Officer (2017) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.