Alessia Attanasio is an Italian art historian and PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, focusing on Baroque Neapolitan art collected by English patrons from the Grand Tour to the present day (1680s–2020s). Her research interests include country houses, the history of collecting and museum studies. Alessia has ten years of experience working in museums as an assistant curator and museum educator, including roles at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples and the Royal Collection Trust in London. Recently, she has been researching and writing about Baroque artworks in the Neapolitan Collection of Compton Verney, contributing to the curation of its permanent and multisensorial redisplay 'Sensing Naples'.
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