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Enrico Colle, after reading History of Art at the University of Florence and then Venice, where he graduated, specialised in the field of the Decorative Arts and concentrated his studies on furnishings and works of art in the Italian royal palaces, with a view to showing them in a more correct setting museum-wise.
He compiled the catalogues of the XVII, XVIII and XIX century furniture in Palazzo Pitti, and those concerning the restoration of the Royal Apartments in this Florentine palace. Enrico Colle directed, on behalf of the publisher Electa, a series on the Decorative Arts where he curated the first five volumes on the history of Italian furniture from Baroque to XIX century. He was the creator and director of the Italian journal ‘DecArt’ which focused on the Decorative Arts and was published by CentroDi.
At present, after teaching at the Specialisation School at Bologna University, he holds the position of Director at the Stibbert Museum in Florence.