Mattia Giancarli is an art historian specializing in Renaissance and Mannerist visual culture, with particular expertise in sixteenth-century Italian drawing, Central Italian painting, and workshop practices between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He received his PhD in Art History from the University of Siena and the University for Foreigners of Siena with a dissertation on the Alberti workshop and the artistic activity of Cherubino Alberti. He has undertaken research, cataloguing, and curatorial work at major international institutions, including the Département des Arts graphiques at the Louvre Museum in Paris, The Courtauld Gallery in London, and the Albertina Museum in Vienna, focusing particularly on sixteenth-century Italian drawings. He has also collaborated with major Italian museums and collections, including Galleria Borghese, Palazzo Venezia Museum, and the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche. His research focuses on Renaissance drawing and painting, especially the work of Cristofano Gherardi, Raffaellino del Colle, Federico Barocci, and the Alberti workshop. He is the author of scholarly essays published in exhibition catalogues, conference proceedings, and peer-reviewed journals.
