After obtaining her PhD in art history from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Alessandra Baroni—a native of Arezzo, Italy— continued her specialization in Old Masters Drawings and Prints. She began to teach art history in 2001 at the University of Siena, Italy. In 2008-2009 Alessandra was a senior Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In 2009, she taught art history in several American academic programs in Italy. In 2010, she became the curator of the Bartolini Art Collection at the Fraternita dei Laici in Arezzo. Since 2011 she has served as the art history instructor within the University of Rochester semester program in Arezzo. In 2018 she has been a Visiting Professor of Italian Art History at the University of Rochester (MLC). Since 2017 she is the Program Director of the International Summer Course on Printmaking and Print collecting. She is Accademico delle Arti del Disegno in Florence and team leader of the project on the reconstruction of the scattered collection of Giorgio Vasari, the so-called Book of Drawings (14th-16th centuries).Among her numerous publications on late Renaissance art is her monographic work on Jan Van Der Straet, Johannes Stradanus published in Rome (1997) and the book on the Medicean albums of prints in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (2011). She is preparing her new book, the English edition of “The Ricordanze: the life and work of Giorgio Vasari”.