Daniele Galleni is an art historian.
He studied at Università di Pisa and at Scuola Normale Superiore, and he had his Phd at Scuola Normale in joint supervision with Aix-Marseille Université – En. He focused his research on the period between 19th and 20th century, and the international spreading of styles like Eclecticism, Liberty/Art Nouveau and Art Déco. He understood that it is of paramount importance to study these phenomena under an international perspective: that’s why he was in Stockholm to reconstruct the history of the 1920 exhibition of Italian Decorative Arts held at the Liljevalchs konsthall and the connections between the Italian artist Guido Balsamo Stella (1882-1941), who was the curator of the event, and the Orrefors Glass Manufacture, in a collaboration that will help to introduce Art Déco Style in Italy. Thanks to Lerici Foundation, he had the opportunity to explore museums and archives in Stockholm and in other Swedish cities in order to rediscover and better understand an episode of cultural and artistic exchange.