He graduated in History of Art at La Sapienza University of Rome with a dissertation on Silvestro Lega.
In 1984 he was the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 41st edition of the Venice Biennale, where he invited Antonio Bueno, Mario Padovan, and Novello Finotti to exhibit.
In 1980 he was appointed Artistic Director of the National Biennial of Contemporary Art in the Province of Rieti.
In 1990 he started working on a revised and expanded edition of his book History of Italian Art of the Twentieth Century (1981).
In 2008, he was appointed Artistic Director of the Lìmen International Art Prize by the Chamber of Commerce of Vibo Valentia.