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Giancarlo Fiorenza
Pierre Daura Curator of European Art

Giancarlo Fiorenza is the first Pierre Daura Curator of European Art at the Georgia Museum of Art. Prior to his appointment in August 2006, he was visiting assistant professor in the Graduate Department of History of Art, University of Toronto for two years. He has lectured and taught at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the University of Toledo; and The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.  

His prior museum experience includes that of Assistant Curator of European Painting and Sculpture Before 1900 at the Toledo Museum of Art, as well as curatorial internships in the Department of Italian Renaissance Paintings at the National Gallery of Art and at the Museo Italo-Americano in San Francisco.

Fiorenza received his M. A. and Ph.D. in art history from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and a B. A., History of Art (Honors), from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is scholar of Italian Renaissance art and the author of the forthcoming Dosso Dossi: Paintings of Myth, Magic, and the Antique (University Park: Penn State University Press) and numerous scholarly articles.

Email him at fiorenza@uga.edu.