Gabriella Belli

Gabriella Belli (born 1952) is an Italian art historian and curator, currently director of the Foundation for the municipal museums of Venice ("Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia").

Life Gabriella Belli was born in Trento, the overwhelmingly Italian speaking capital of Italy's bilingual Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region.

She graduated from Bologna University, producing a dissertation with Anna Ottavi Cavina on the history of court painting in nineteenth century Russia. She then specialised in contemporary art criticism at the University of Parma. Returning to Trento in 1981 she was appointed curator at the Buonconsiglio Castle Museum.

In 2011 she received from Guy Cogeval, on behalf of the French Culture Minister a Knighthood of Arts and Literature and the ICOM Italy prize when she was named as the best museologist of the year.