After graduating in 1970 in Modern Literature, with a specialization in Art History, at the University of Rome, he taught in several high schools before beginning work in the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 1974, first at the Superintendency of Liguria and later in that of Rome. From 1991 to 2009 he served as superintendent of the Roman Museum Network, and in this role he worked on the reorganization of several museums in the capital. He conceived and organized major art exhibitions, in Italy and abroad, dedicated, among others, to Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti, Raphael, Titian, and Tiepolo. As an art history popularizer, he has hosted television programs (e.g., *Divini Devoti*, broadcast by Rai5 in ten episodes in 2014) and collaborated with newspapers and magazines. An expert in Renaissance and seventeenth-century painting and sculpture, he is also knowledgeable in the musical field, and has collaborated with the *Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani* published by the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana.