The Brera Academy of Fine Arts is one of Italy's most prestigious cultural institutions, known for its commitment to offering high-quality education that combines tradition and innovation.
With a wide range of both three-year and master's degree courses, the Academy covers numerous subjects: from painting to sculpture, from graphics to photography, from design to fashion, from set design to new technologies, from cultural heritage to curatorial practices.
The Academy is a place where artistic tradition merges with the challenges and opportunities of the contemporary world, creating a unique environment for training the future protagonists of the world art scene.
Many well-known artists have passed through Brera as students or lecturers: Francesco Hayez, Giuseppe Bisi, Cesare Tallone, Carlo Carrà, Achille Funi, Adolfo Wildt, Aldo Carpi, Francesco Messina, Marino Marini, Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Luciano Fabro, Alberto Garutti, Liliana Moro, Mario Airò, Gianni Caravaggio, Bernhard Rüdigher, Marcello Maloberti, Vanessa Beecroft, Lara Favaretto, Giuseppe Gabellone, Paola Pivi, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Roberto Cuoghi, Petrit Halilaj.
Marco Negroni teaches Interaction Design and Web Design at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he is also coordinator of the three-year course in Cultural Heritage within the School of Communication and Art Didactics. Professionally, he has 20 years of experience in designing web platforms and managing complex projects. As part of the JERUS project, he acts as Technical Project Manager.
He graduated in History of Modern Art at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on Francesco Trevisani and the Arcadian Theatre and specialised at Paris X Nanterre with a thesis on Trompe-l'oeil in 18th century France.
He has published articles and essays on Italian and French artists from the 18th century to the present and curated exhibitions on various topics. From 2010 he worked on the design of the ‘Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard’ in Grasse, which he directed until 2016. From 2016 to 2019 he curated the project for the refurbishment of the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. He has taught History of Art and Museology at the academies of fine arts in Sassari, Lecce and Naples and since 2022 at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
is a senior Book and Paper Conservator. She graduated from the Istituto per la Patologia del Libro “Alfonso Gallo” (ICPL) in Rome. Since 1999, she has worked in the Conservation Department of the National Library of Norway, where she also became a research fellow in 2024.
In 2004, she began teaching Conservation and Restoration of parchment and paper-based materials at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. In 2015, she was appointed Professor of Conservation of Cultural Heritage and became coordinator of the Paper, Books, Photographs, Film, and Digital Media Department at the Brera Conservation School. She is a member of the Doctoral Committee (PhD) in “Tecniche e strumenti per lo studio, la produzione, la conservazione e la valorizzazione dei beni culturali” at the Academy of Brera.
Maria Chiara Palandri is the author of numerous articles and actively participates in international research projects on conservation and the history of techniques and materials. These include NANORESTART, LitCit, ECHOES, IArtNET, the Color Studies working group (CHSTM), and NorCol.
She is a member of several professional organizations, a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation (IIC), and currently serves as Vice-President of the International Association of Book and Paper Conservators (IADA), contributing to the organization of international conferences.
Annalisa Curtarelli holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Communication from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. She works on the JERUS‑IT‑ARTS project within the coordination secretariat and provides core support for the activities of the PNRR Office.
