Dr Tom Flynn, FRSA
Tom is a UK-based art historian, valuer and appraiser and a specialist in the professional practices of the international art market, historical and contemporary sculpture, and issues in art crime and cultural heritage. Tom is a graduate of the University of Sussex and the Royal College of Art. He completed his doctorate at the University of Sussex in 1998. His writing has appeared in numerous international art publications and he has held board positions with London-based art price data and contemporary art publishing companies. He is a member of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics, and has published widely on the global art market, contemporary sculpture and art and design history. He is the author of The A to Z of the International Art Market (Bloomsbury 2016).
Tom@flynngiovani.com
Angelina Giovani, MA, FRSA
Angelina Giovani is an art historian and provenance researcher based in London. She has an undergraduate degree in Art History from the American College of Greece and an MA in Art Appraisal from Kingston University, London. She is a graduate of ARCA (Association for Research into Crimes Against Art) in Amelia, Italy as well as of the Provenance Research Training Program (PRTP) workshops in Zagreb, Vilnius and Rome. During the past five years she has worked for the Jeu de Paume database documenting the Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, acted as Head of Provenance Research for a bespoke Family Office Art Advisory and advised financial institutions on due diligence guidelines and ethical collecting. She now works with private collectors, museums and the art trade to help them reconstruct the narratives behind the artworks, while simultaneously acting as an Art Business Mentor for Finito. In 2020, Angelina was appointed as a Provenance Research Specialist at CAfA- Court of Arbitration for Art, Hague and in 2022 she launched the Collections Provenance Rating, an innovative tool that helps assess the state of documentation of a collection and offers recommendations based on the risk level identified. She conducts research in Greek, Italian, French and Spanish.
Angie@flynngiovani.com