Barbara Cianelli was born in Florence in 1982, she deepened her passion for art and history during high school and later with university studies.
She received his bachelor’s degree in History and Protection of Artistic Heritage at the University of Florence in 2008, focusing her academic studies on the history of restoration and the conservation of artistic artefacts (painting on panel, canvas and mural, sculpture and fresco ). She discussed a degree on the history of Italian restoration of the twentieth century with the lecturer Prof. Giorgio Bonsanti.
Since 2008 she is a researcher at the Archivio ASRI Secco Suardo di Bergamo which deals with research on the history of national restoration.
In 2011 she obtained her master’s degree in art history at the same university by discussing a thesis with the highest honors with Prof. Giorgio Bonsanti. Thanks to which she was able to discuss a thesis on Renaissance wooden inlays, deepening her studies on the largest example of Italian wooden artefact still in existence.
In 2015 she completed a Master’s Degree in Expertise at the Accademia Art Gap di Roma. She then began the job of art expert and antiques and from 2016 is enrolled at the Chamber of Commerce of Florence as an art expert and expert in antiquity, antiques, painting and sculpture.
From 2009 to 2011 she conducted research work at the Archivio Storico by Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze and at the Ala Ponzone Civic Museum in Cremona.
From 2014 to 2016 she was the Director of Museo MuSA di San Giorgio in Pesaro and of the Municipal Historical Archive of the same administration.
She has curated numerous important exhibitions and anthologies at public and private venues (Palazzo Banci Buonamici in Prato, Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano, Opificio JM and many others). She teaches historical and artistic studies at international academies. She works as a consultant for gallery owners and private collectors.
Collaborations
She has worked for many years with newspapers writing art and culture articles. She directed the cataloging and management of the CEPAC digital archive in Prato.
She has done and still carries out studies on Renaissance wooden marquetries. In the same years she began publishing essays in specialized magazines.