Furio Rinaldi is an Italian art historian and curator, who is currently the curator of drawings and prints at the Achenbach Foundation for

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. He is the curator of the first exhibition devoted to the drawings of the

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Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli ( ; ) or simply known as Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 1 ...

and the principal author of the accompanying book published by

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. Rinaldi is also the author of ''Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present'' (

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2021), which accompanied the exhibition of the same name, which he oversaw at the FAMSF and was on view from October 9, 2021 to February 13, 2022. The Botticelli drawing book was chosen as the best art book of the year by critic Jason Farago in the ''

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''. From September 2022 until December 2023 he was the David and Julie Tobey Fellow at

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(The

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Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) with a focus on the drawings of Botticelli. Rinaldi has detailed three previously unattributed Botticelli drawings. Rinaldi tjen curated ''

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'' at the De Young Museum, which is the first major U.S. museum retrospective of the Polish

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artist's work. After leaving San Feancisco the exhibition traveled to the

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