Giuseppe Virelli received his Ph.D from the University of Bologna, where he was subsequently appointed research fellow in the Department of Arts, and has also spent time as a visiting researcher attached to the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris. He is currently Adjunct Professor for the course Arte in Europa tra Ottocento e Novecento at the University of Bologna. An expert on Italian and foreign artistic movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – particularly in the fields of painting, the graphic arts, decorative and applied art and design – he has curated several exhibitions and published a number of essays in journals, books and catalogues concerning Symbolism, Primitivism/Expressionism, Futurism and the ‘return to order’