Pietro Di Natale is the new director of Ferrara Arte (and therefore of Palazzo Diamanti)

The Ferrara Arte Foundation has a new director: he is young art historian Pietro Di Natale, appointed yesterday by Ferrara Arte President Vittorio Sgarbi. Born in Bologna in 1981, Di Natale graduated in modern art history from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the painter Matteo Loves, a Guercino collaborator documented in Emilia in the mid-17th century.

A specialist in Bolognese and Emilian art from the 16th to the 19th century, Di Natale has worked with Sgarbi since 2005: He is responsible for the ancient and modern art collections of the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation and has participated in the realization of numerous exhibitions he has curated (among the best known and most recent are Da Cimabue a Morandi in Bologna in 2015, the exhibition Il Tesoro d’Italia at Expo 2015 in Milan, several editions of the exhibition Le stanze segrete di Vittorio Sgarbi, and Da Niccolò dell’Arca a Gaetano Previati. The 2018 Cavallini Sgarbi Collection in Ferrara). He is also a registered appraiser with the Bologna Chamber of Commerce and the Court of Bologna, and is responsible for the General Archive of the work of Nicola Zamboni and Sara Bolzani.

Di Natale succeeds Maria Luisa Pacelli, whose term ends in 2019, and who has just been appointed director of the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. As director of the Ferrara Arte Foundation, Di Natale will thus be tasked with directing Palazzo dei Diamanti and organizing the exhibitions and activities of the exhibition center that attracts about 150,000 visitors to Ferrara each year.

During the press conference, Sgarbi praised Di Natale as a person “of proven abilities and a meticulous art historian.” Di Natale, for his part, merely anticipated, “I will speak little and work a lot.”

Pietro Di Natale is the new director of Ferrara Arte (and therefore of Palazzo Diamanti)

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