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Pietro C. Marani

Pietro C. Marani Professor of the History of Modern Art and Museology at the Polytechnic of Milan, formerly held the position of Vice Director of the Pinacoteca di Brera and co-director of the restoration project of Leonardo's Last Supper. He is the President of the Ente Raccolta Vinciana, Sforza Castle, Milan, and member of the Rome-based Commissione Nazionale Vinciana for the publication of Leonardo's work. He teaches on the PhD Design course at the Polytechnic of Milan. He has written many books on Leonardo, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Bergognone, Bramantino, Bernardino Luini and, in general on the painting and architecture of the Italian Renaissance, museology and restoration. He has also written about contemporary art (Peter Greenaway, Igor Mitoraj, Gary Stephens, Alessandro Papetti, Agostino Arrivabene etc). He has collaborated in the scientific classification of the paintings held in the museums of Milan (Pinacoteca di Brera, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Quadreria dell'Arcivescovado, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana), he has curated, alongside B. Fabjan, the general catalogue of the museum of the Certosa di Pavia and the catalogue of the paintings of the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan. He has published previously unseen works by Verrocchio, Cesare da Sesto, Sodoma, Giampietrino, Pietro Antonio Magatti, Giuseppe Bossi etc. He has also co-authored the catalogues of the two important exhibitions on Leonardo's drawings and manuscripts held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. He has published a catalogue of Leonardo's drawings and those of his inner circle that are exhibited at the public museums in France (2008). He has coordinated the series of 25 exhibitions held between 2009 and 2015 at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, which presented the original papers of Leonardo's Atlantic Code, divided and classified by theme. He curated, with M.T. Fiorio, the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. The Design of the World", held at the Royal Palace in Milan in 2015 to mark the World Fair. He is the author of over 200 publications, translated into eight languages. He is also part of the National Committee for the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death (1519-2019).