Graduated in History of Modern Art at the University of Turin and specialised at the University of Genoa, she has been studying ancient and baroque art exhibitions in Turin during the 1930s and Carlo and Amedeo di Castellamonte, architects and engineers at the Savoy’s court.

After a three-year working experience abroad, in Fondazione 1563 she supports the Ancient and Modern project and the fellowship program on the Age and Culture of Baroque.

Maria Francesca Bocasso
tel. +39 011 4401406
e-mail francesca.bocasso@fondazione1563.it

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Art historian and qualified archivist.

She has worked as a freelance consultant archivist, cataloguing, organising, inventorying, conserving and promoting archives of all types, public and private, contemporary and historical. She works on the Historical Archives of the Compagnia di San Paolo and the various initiatives relating to it; she also works on the promotion of the Foundation’s photographic collections.

Stella Circosta
+39 011 4401409
mariastella.circosta@fondazione1563.it

A qualified archivist she has worked here since 2003 at first for the Compagnia di San Paolo and then for the Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura, with responsibility for the management of the Foundation’s archival holdings and of the related publications.

More recently she has worked mainly on making archives accessible online and managing the process of digitising archival inventories. Among her main interests is early photography.

Erika Salassa
+39 011 4401402
erika.salassa@fondazione1563.it

A qualified archivist, her responsibilities include the arrangment of the Historical Archives of the Compagnia di San Paolo, providing access to it and promoting it more widely.

Between 1996 and 2001 she worked as a freelance consultant archivist cataloguing, organising and inventorying historical archives belonging to local authorities, churches, businesses, cultural associations and institutions in Piedmont.

Curator of the Historical Archives of the Compagnia di San Paolo from July, 2018.

Ilaria Bibollet
+39 011 4401403
ilaria.bibollet@fondazione1563.it

With a degree in literature from the University of Turin, she specialised in events administration at the European Institute of Design in Turin.

She has worked for the Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo as administrative support, with responsibility for events organisation, since September 2015.

Claudia Curotti
+39 011 4401401
claudia.curotti@fondazione1563.it

Art historian and qualified archivist. She worked for the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artisti del Piemonte, the Piedmont Regional Goverment, the Order of St Maurice in Turin and the Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano (FAI) on art historical research, cataloguing and promotion, in particular relating to the residences of the Savoy dynasty.

From 1996 to 2004 she was the co-ordinator for the Associazione Torino Città Capitale Europea and she was responsible for planning and implementing the Museum Pass scheme for museums and galleries in Turin and Piedmont.

Since 2004 she has worked in Fondazione 1563 as Senior Program manager, since  2018 as Deputy Director, since 2020 as Executive Director.  She has worked for the Fondazione 1563 since 2004 as Senior Program manager. Between 2009 and 2012, she was seconded from the Fondazione to organise the ‘Grandi Mostre’ exhibition programme for the Reggia di Venaria Reale and she co-ordinated the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification in 2011.

Elisabetta Ballaira
+39 011 4401405
elisabetta.ballaira@fondazione1563.it