Emanuele Zappasodi

Emanuele Zappasodi is associate professor of Mediaeval Art History at Siena’s University for Foreigners. His research focuses on various aspects of painting in central and southern Italy from the 13th to the early 16th centuries, an area of study to which he has devoted essays and articles published in leading scientific periodicals and exhibition catalogues. He curated the exhibition entitled L’Enigma del Maestro di San Francesco e lo “stil novo” del Duecento umbro at the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria in 2024 and he has contributed to a number of other exhibitions, including Revoir Cimabue, Aux origines de la peinture italienne curated by T. Bohl at the Musée du Louvre in 2025, Andrea del Verrocchio. Maestro di Leonardo curated by F. Caglioti and A. De Marchi at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence in 2019, and Álvaro Pires d’Évora. O primeiro pintor português at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon in 2019–20.