John Marciari is Curator of European Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale University and before going to San Diego he was the Nina & Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. Dr. Marciari has extensive experience as a teacher and lecturer. He has taught at Loyola College, at Yale, and at the University of San Diego and has given many public lectures, not only at the museums at which he has been a curator, but also at the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Museum, Cambridge University, and elsewhere. A fellow of the American Academy in Rome, his expertise spans the breadth of Italian art, architecture, and culture. He has served as the study leader for several previous tours of Sicily organized by the Smithsonian and by the Association of Yale Alumni.