He graduated in 1970 with a degree in modern literature, with a specialization in art history, from the University of Rome, and after teaching in a number of high schools, he has worked in the Ministry of Cultural Heritage since 1974, first in the Superintendency of Liguria and later in the Superintendency of Rome. From 1991 to 2009 he was superintendent for the Roman Museum Pole and in that capacity was involved in the reorganization of several museums in the capital. He conceived and organized major art exhibitions in Italy and abroad dedicated to Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio and the Caravaggesque painters, Raphael, Titian, and Tiepolo, among others. As a popularizer of art history, he has conducted television programs (e.g., Divini Devoti broadcast by Rai5 in ten episodes in 2014) and collaborated with newspapers and magazines. An expert on Renaissance and seventeenth-century painting and sculpture, he is also knowledgeable in the field of music and has collaborated with the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani published by the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana.
