Who is Mariastella Margozzi, the expert who will have to solve the Modigliani case in Genoa

The Genoa Public Prosecutor ’s Office has appointed expert Mariastella Margozzi to settle the issue of the Amedeo Modigliani paintings on display in Genoa around which collector Carlo Pepi has raised a high-profile case, judging them to be forgeries and thus leading to the opening of an investigation by the prosecutor’s office itself for violation of the Cultural Heritage Code. Mariastella Margozzi will carefully sift through the documentation that Palazzo Ducale handed over to the Carabinieri of the Comando Tutela Patrimonio Culturale to determine whether the paintings are indeed forgeries or whether the authorship is correctly attributed to Modigliani.

Mariastella Margozzi, an art historian, has been an official of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage since 1993 and has worked at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome since the same year. She was also director of the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum for Decorative Arts, also in Rome. During her career she has served on several scientific committees of exhibitions on Italian art of the nineteenth-nineteenth century and has been a firsthand curator of major reviews (among the exhibitions she has curated are notably Paul Klee and Italy at GNAM in 2012, Palma Bucarelli. The Museum as Avant-Garde also at GNAM in 2009, Mario Sironi. Myth and Modernity at Brindisi in 2010, Monumental Sironi at the MART in Rovereto in 2005 and The Springtime of Galileo Chini at GNAM in 2004).

Who is Mariastella Margozzi, the expert who will have to solve the Modigliani case in Genoa

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