Antonio Parronchi has always had an interest in paintings and has visited museums and galleries, spent time with art critics and dealers ever since he was young. His initial fascination for contemporary art was taken over by a new passion: the Macchiaioli, the Ottocento and early 20th century, which led him to collect works from these periods. He became a professional in 1962 and started working with the Florence-based gallery Il Fiorino in 1975, to organise a relevant exhibition on the painter Oscar Ghiglia at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. He opened his first gallery in 1977 with the show “Tuscan painters from Neoclassicism to the post Macchiaioli era.” He opened a gallery in Milan in 1992, which stayed in business for twenty-five years. Antonio Parronchi has published several catalogues and monographs; his last effort is a catalogue raisonné for Allemandi Publishing.