Francesca Cappelletti

Francesca Cappelletti is director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome. She studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, at the Warburg Institute in London, where she was later Frances Yates Fellow, and at the Collège de France in Paris. She has taught History of Modern Art and History of the Art of European Countries in Italian universities, most recently as full professor at the University of Ferrara. He has curated several exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He has published a volume on the Mattei collection “(Il trattamento dei virtuosi”, with L. Testa, Argos, 1994) and various articles on the events of its dispersion, which contributed to the discovery of Caravaggio's painting “The Taking of Christ”. His most recent book is “Belle. Ritratti femminili nelle stanze del potere” (Mondadori, 2024).