Wiebke Fastenrath Vinattieri

Wiebke Fastenrath Vinattieri is a freelance art historian based in Florence. After studying art history, classical archaeology and German studies in Würzburg, Munich, Florence and Rome, she earned her PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 1993. From 1994 to 1998 she was employed at the State Office for the Preservation of Saxon Monuments in Dresden. In Florence, where in 2003 she has edited the unpublished writings of Robert Davidsohn, she‘s also doing researches for the Lindenau-Museum in Altenburg. Her main topics are the transfer of culture from Italy to Germany in the 18^th and 19^th centuries, Italian Renaissance painting and provenance research.