Gabriella Belli (born 1952) is an Italian art historian and curator,[1] currently director of the Foundation for the municipal museums of Venice ("Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia").
She graduated from Bologna University, producing a dissertation with Anna Ottavi Cavina on the history of court painting in nineteenth century Russia.
[1] In 1982 she was given responsibility for the project to transform the Palazzo delle Albere into what would become the nucleus, till 2011, of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto.
In 2003, jointly with Novello Finotti and Cesare Montecucco, Belli was a winner of the Premio internazionale Civiltà Veneta (Venetian international arts prize).
[4] In 2011 she received from Guy Cogeval, on behalf of the French Culture Minister a Knighthood of Arts and Literature[5] and the ICOM Italy prize when she was named as the best museologist of the year.