Gianfranco Luzzetti

Gianfranco Luzzetti was born in Giuncarico (Grosseto) in 1932. In the 50s, he studied the world of art in Rome and then established in Milan where he opened a decorative antiques and art shop in one of the most prestigious places of the city: Via Montenapoleone.

His market choices, in Milan, are linked to the “tuscanity” of gold and medieval art that, according to his origins, becomes a personal strategy of selling.

From this point on, his antiquarian career takes off and links to the activity of collector: Gianfranco Luzzetti makes itself known by the most important intellectual of the age and all the world's museums directors.

From the 80s, Luzzetti buys and relocates in a 13th century palace in Florence's city center, which will become his personal museum house.

In Tuscany's capital, the antiquarian and collector attention is directed to the fashion of the 17th century: an age where the city was only known for the artistic revival.

With this choice, Luzzetti advances and promotes the Tuscan Baroque knowledge that will also become the protagonist in his Grosseto's museum, which was born in 2019 and located in a chosen building - not a random one - in Florence, under French domination.

Gianfranco Luzzetti dies in Florence in 2023.