The team of the Matteucci Institute is made up of young art historians whose formation has been getting more and more qualified through the study and in-depth analysis of modern Italian art. Their collaboration concerns the coordination and scientific management of the various areas, as well as the planning, realization and involvement in the several cultural initiatives.

Elisabetta Matteucci

After attending an art marketing course at SDA Bocconi in Milan, Elisabetta Palminteri graduated in 1999 at the University of Pisa in History of Contemporary Art, with a thesis centred on the reconstruction of the sculptor Rinaldo Carnielo’s private collection of paintings. Since then she has devoted herself with passion to the Italian figurative art of the second half of the nineteenth century, concentrating her interests on the in-depth study and critical recovery of the great historical nuclei of the modern Italian collections. In the year 1997/1998 she took an active part in the scientific committee of the work “Pittori e pittura dell’Ottocento Italiano”, published by De Agostini. She was involved in the organization of some exhibitions, both retrospective and monographic, about some protagonists of the nineteenth-century Italian painting.

At present she is responsible for the scientific coordination at Matteucci Institute.

Claudia Fulgheri

Specialized in 2008 in History of Modern Art at the University of Pisa, with the thesis “Iconologia del mito di Bacco nella Galleria del Palazzo Ducale estense di Sassuolo”. From 2007 to 2010 she dealt with the permanent collection and outfittings of the temporary exhibitions in the Civic Museum “Giovanni Fattori” in Livorno. Here she was also involved in several editorial projects and on the organization of art learning activities. As a member of the Association of the Museum Friends, since 2009 she has collaborated with the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary art “Lorenzo Viani” in Viareggio, taking part in the didactic, promotional and administrative planning of the institution. In 2011 she got the II level master “Mediazione culturale nei musei: aspetti didattici, sperimentali, valutativi” at the faculty of “Scienze della Formazione” at the University of Rome, enriching her knowledge of the different kinds of museum visitors and the specific educational events.

At present, in the Matteucci Institute, she deals with the curatorship of the collections catalogues.

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