is an art historian. He studied at the University of Pisa (M.A.) and at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (diploma di licenza and Ph.D.). He is currently an Exzellenziniziative Research Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich. His areas of special interest include the reception of Italian Renaissance art outside of Italy, sculpture, metalwork and serial production in the period spanning the 14th to the 16th century, cultural exchange and transcultural processes in the European Habsburg dominions, as well as several aspects of classical tradition in the visual arts (casts after the antique, collections of antiquities and re-use).