Arduino Colasanti

Arduino Colasanti (24 June 1877 – 23 November 1935) was an Italian Renaissance scholar who served as general director of the Department of Antiquity and Fine Arts in Rome.

I have been to them all, either in connections with my own studies or officially as a representative of the Italian government, and it is my deep conviction that for magnificence or architecture, richness of decoration, adaptation to site, superb landscape gardening, variety of elements that compose it, San Francisco's is the most beautiful international exhibition ever held.

The background did not worry him, it was not Leonardo, whilst that of the Mona Lisa in Paris undoubtedly was and can be compared with that of the Madonna della Roccia.

[5]In the mid-1920s, Colasanti, in his capacity as director of the Italian Fine Arts institute, led excavations on the Island of Capri of sites thought to have been used for orgies of emperor Tiberius.

Colasanti expressed his belief "that relics of classic arts he expects to find, will depict scenes in the life of the emperor".