Roberto Manescalchi

Roberto Manescalchi, art historian, is considered one of the leading scholars of Piero della Francesca. He was responsible for the reprint of an unpublished manuscript of Piero and the rediscovery of works by Giotto, Botticelli, Paolo Uccello, Michelozzo, Morto da Feltre, Leonardo (in 2007, his discoveries in Florence of Leonado's Studio were reported worldwide) and Rembrandt.

Born in 1962, where the Tiber River is already 'sacred' but not 'blonde' yet, he inebriated himself for nineteen years, without any restraint, of lights, colors and spaces of Piero della Francesca landscapes.

Still very young he got lost in the maze of sophisticated and magical world of graphics.

An indipended spirit and open mind person he practices 'heresy' with great consistency and confidence.

Impatient with the stupidity he expresses a deep and profound disrespect for any form of bureaucracy or any 'order' or 'way of proceeding' previously established.

One can find his innovative method of investigation reading "Pagine Nuove" a magazine of Art and Architecture he directs.

Absolutely certain that two plus two always make four, however, he is particularly attentive to what belongs to human nature, anxiety, irrational, magical and fairy and he therefore believes deeply in a comparative history research, which has in Aby Warburg an ideal model.

In July 1980, Roberto Manescalchi, published his first book entitled: "Notes on the historical success of the altarpiece of S. Maria della Misericordia di Piero della Francesca", since then his production includes more than one hundred scientific articles and dozens of books.