S. Bietoletti Biography
Silvestra Bietoletti (-), student of Carlo Del Bravo, mainly studies Italian art topics from Neoclassicism to the Second World War. Since 1980 he has collaborated with the Gallery of Modern Art of Palazzo Pitti, and since 2003 he has been responsible for the nineteenth and twentieth century collections of the National Museum of Palazzo Mansi, in Lucca. Since 2002, the year in which he published a book on stain painting, he has curated multiple exhibitions on the Macchiaioli and collaborated in the most important exhibitions held in Italy on the topic, including, in autumn 2015, Fattori, Padova, Palazzo Zabarella, and I Macchiaioli in the collection of Giacomo Jucker, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, and in March 2016, I Macchiaioli. The collections revealed, Rome, Bramante Cloister. Among his works of the last decade relating to Tuscan figurative culture are: Lorenzo Bartolini, Florence, Le Lettere, 2010; the curatorship of the exhibition catalog and conference proceedings dedicated to Bartolini, in 2011 and 2013; The School of Sculpture at the Academy of Florence, in the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. Sculpture 1784-1915, Pisa 2016; Luigi Pera, exhibition catalog (Lucca, Ragghianti Foundation), Lucca 2017; The School of Painting at the Academy of Florence 1815-1860, in the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. Painting 1784-1915, Florence 2017. He is also working on a book on caricature in Florence in the mid-nineteenth century, and one on art in the Serchio valley in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
