About the Author

Francesca Bardazzi is an art historian and an expert in the sculpture of the first half of the twentieth century. A scholar of C�zanne and of his collectors in Italy, she has studied the figure of Italo-American collector and painter Egisto Fabbri. Carlo Sisi was the director of the Galleria D'arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti in Florence until 2006. From 1999 to 2002, he was also the director of the Galleria del Costume. He has been president of the Museo Marini in Florence and has taught contemporary art history at Siena University.