Prof. Dr. Frits Scholten is Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and specializes in sculpture from the 15th to the 19th century. In addition, he holds the Rijksmuseum Chair in the Theory and History of Collecting at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a professor by special appointment. Francesca Cappelletti is an art history professor at the University of Ferrara and the director of Galleria Borghese in Rome. She graduated from the University of Rome and where she verified the authenticity of the Caravaggio painting The Taking of Christ with Laura Testa while they were students. Francesca also studied at the Warburg Institute in London and the Collège de France in Paris.