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Prof. Antonio Paolucci, italian art historian, studied under Roberto Longhi and is a specialist in Italian Renaissance Art. Since 2007, Antonio Paolucci is the Director of the Vatican Museums. He was Director of the Restoration Laboratory of the “Opificio delle Pietre Dure” in Florence, Superintendent for the Artistic Heritage of Venice, Verona and Mantua, Director of the Uffizi Gallery and, for almost 20 years, he was the Superintendent of the Polo Museale of Florence and Director General for Cultural Heritage in Tuscany.
He is a Lincean Academician and an Academic member of the Art and Design Academy of Florence. He has taught at the University of Florence ( Department of Literature and Philosophy and Institute for Art History) as well as  at the University of Siena. Between 1995 and 1996, he took on the role of Minister for Cultural Activities. Antonio Paolucci writes for several newspapers ( Paragone, Il Bollettino d’Arte, Il Giornale dell’Arte, il Sole 24 Ore, La Repubblica, La Nazione and Avvenire); He has published numerous monographic works on art history and has curated important exhibitions on the Renaissance Art in Italy and abroad.
Following the Umbria-Marche earthquake in 1997 he was appointed Special Commissioner by the Government for the Restoration of the Basilica of St.Francis of Assisi.