Tomaso Montanari

Tomaso Montanari (born 15 October 1971) is an Italian art historian, academic and essayist.

He was born in Florence and there attended the liceo classico Dante, before graduating from the University of Pisa and studying alongside Paola Barocchi at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

He is notable as one of the most authoritative authors on western Baroque art, on which he has written over one hundred essays in scholarly reviews and for noted publishers.

He is president of the Comitato tecnico scientifico per le Belle Arti (technical scientific committee for fine arts) in Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and is thus also ex officio a member of the Consiglio Universitario Nazionale.

He is also a member of the Uffizi's scientific committee,[2] the editorial panel of the review Prospettiva[3] and the jury for the Premio Sila.