Turin, Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa is the new director of the Civic Museum of Palazzo Madama

The Museo Civico d’Arte Antica at Palazzo Madama in Turin has a new director: he is art historian Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, whose appointment was announced today by the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Torino Muse, which met today.

Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa passed the selection among more than 300 resumes received in response to the call launched by the Fondazione Torino Musei to identify the museum’s new director. Born in Turin in 1971, Villa is associate professor of History of Modern Art at the University of Bergamo and professor of Museology and Museography at the School of Specialization in Historical-Artistic Heritage at the University of Udine. He is also a member of the Superior Council for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of the Ministry of Culture. He previously served as honorary director of the Civic Museums of Vicenza. A specialist in Renaissance Venetian painting, for the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome he has curated monographic exhibitions on Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Lotto, Tintoretto and Titian and numerous exhibition projects in Italy and abroad, including in Brussels, Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg and Tokyo, among others. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications and important monographs.

“I express full satisfaction with the appointment of Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa as Director of Palazzo Madama,” says Maurizio Cibrario, President of the Fondazione Torino Musei. “Knowledge, Vision, Leadership: in the deep meaning of these words the profile of Prof. Villa is outlined and I am convinced that in the museum symbiosis, the grafting of such a prestigious personality will bring results of absolute value.”

“I am sincerely moved and grateful to the Fondazione Torino Musei for the opportunity to put myself at the service of a city that I love deeply, collaborating on a part of the life of Palazzo Madama,” newly elected director Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa says warmly. “Once the paperwork at my Orobian Athenaeum has been completed, it will truly be an honor to work to contribute to the appreciation of a place that condenses two thousand years of history in a nutshell, a treasure trove of works of art of admirable beauty and prestige: an exemplary space of our country’s excellence.”

Pictured: Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa

Turin, Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa is the new director of the Civic Museum of Palazzo Madama

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