Maltese, Corrado

Professor of History of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Genoa, professor of History of Modern Art at Sapienza University of Rome and at the University of Cagliari. He has studied Renaissance art and 19th-century and modern art. The themes he has explored most in depth during his long career include contemporary Italian art, the history of artistic techniques, the history of perspective, and studies on Leonardo and Piero Della Francesca. He is the author of the History of Art in Italy 1785-1943, published by Einaudi.