Graduated and specialized in History of Art with Mina Gregori, Antonella Nesi works since 1997 for the Florentine Civic Museum. She is curator of the Stefano Bardini Museum since 2004, having supervised its new outfitting and reopening in 2009, after ten years of refurbishments. She has written many essays on the Florentine Seicento, and she is presently working on the world of the antique trade between the nineteenth and the twentieth century.