Furio Rinaldi

Furio Rinaldi is an Italian art historian and curator, who is currently the curator of drawings and prints at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He is the curator of the first exhibition devoted to the drawings of the renaissance master Sandro Botticelli and the principal author of the accompanying book published by Yale University Press.

Rinaldi is also the author of Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present (Schiffer Publishing 2021) which. accompanied the exhibition of the same name which he oversaw at the FAMSF which was on view from October 9, 2021, until February 13, 2022. The Botticelli drawing book was chosen as the best art book;of the year by critic Jason Farago in the New York Times art critics 2023 year end best art books of the anum list.

From September 2022 until December 2023 he was the David and Julie Tobey Fellow at I Tatti (The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) with a focus on the drawings of Botticelli. Rinaldi has detailed three preciously unattributed Botticelli drawings.

Rinaldi is the curator of the forthcoming Tamara de Lempicka the De Young Museum, which is to be the first major U.S. Museum retrospective of the Polish art-deco artist's work.