Silvestra Bietoletti, art historian, dedicated herself mainly to subjects of Italian art from Neoclassicism to the 20th century, especially Tuscan. She collaborated on long term with the modern art gallery of Palazzo Pitti, and with the National Museums of Lucca for which she did installations and exhibitions. In 2002 she published a book on macchiaioli painting that has been a frequent theme of his studies ever since, as evidenced by the care of the catalogue for the exhibition held at the GAM in Turin in 2018: I macchiaioli. Italian art over modernity. Among the books accomplished these last years, there is a volume dedicated to Lorenzo Bartolini (Florence 2010), one to Giuseppe Bezzuoli, his pupils and other artists (Florence 2014), the essays in the volumes edited by Sandro Bellesi: Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze: Scultura 1784-1915 (Pisa 2016), and Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze: Pittura 1784-1915 (Florence 2017), and Arte nella Valle del Serchio. Un percorso dall'alto Medioevo al Novecento (Lucca 2018).