At the University of Bologna, he obtained a degree in DAMS Art (2004), a specialization (2009), and a Ph.D. in Art History (2012). Since 2020, he is an adjunct professor in History of Arts in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (FICLIT-Unibo).
Since 2004, he has been working in galleries and exhibition spaces; since 2023, he has been the scientific director of the Museum of the City of Livorno; from 2007 to 2023, he worked in various positions at the Musei Civici d'Arte Antica in Bologna.
In 2021, he worked as an expert Art Historian at the Soprintendenza archeologia belle arti e paesaggio per le province di Como, Lecco, Monza-Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio e Varese; in 2013, he conducted research and cataloging at the J. Paul Getty Museum and UCLA. In 2015, he taught History of Architecture at CIEE in Ferrara. From 2019 to 2020, he was the scientific reference and coordinator of educational and training activities and visitor services for the Rocchetta Mattei for the Carisbo Foundation, where he carried out cataloging of its artworks.
Since 2014, he has been collaborating as a scientific consultant and expert on video with Ballandi Arts, RAI Italia, and 3DProduzioni in Milan, contributing to the production of numerous television documentaries for Rai Storia, Rai 5, Rai Italia, and Sky Arte.
For years, he has been involved in teaching at various levels and for different audiences, as well as in cultural and touristic promotion, including guided tours in various locations in Italy, Europe, and the Near East. As the President of the cultural association "Rabisch," he founded and direct the Libera Scuola di Storia dell'Arte "F. Arcangeli".
He has been awarded scholarships in Italian and European contexts, curated and collaborated on numerous exhibitions from the Middle Ages to contemporary times, participated in national and international conferences.
He has an extensive list of publications, including entries in the Treccani Biographical Dictionary; the new handbook by Carlo Bertelli "Invito all'arte 2. Il Medioevo" (Pearson 2017); the monograph "Le arti e la spada. La committenza artistica dei Templari e dei cavalieri di Malta in Emilia e in Romagna" (Persiani Editore 2018); the article "The Ludovisi Tondo: a rediscovered sculpture by Jacopo della Quercia" (The Burlington Magazine, 2021).
