Liana Castelfranchi taught History of Medieval Art at the University of Verona and at the University of Milan. She mainly dedicated his studies to the field of painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with particular attention to the phenomena of artistic circulation and to the relationships between Italian and French art. For Jaca Book, she was curator of the "History of European Art" collection and author of numerous publications: Italy and Flanders in 15th century painting (1983), Angelic and Humanism (1989), Minor arts in the Middle Ages ( 1994), Van Eyck (1998), Ottonian art around the year 1000 (2002), The year one thousand. Art in Europe from 950 to 1050 (2018), Medieval art in Europe (2019).