Clario Di Fabio teaches Art History at the University of Genoa and has directed the Galleria di Palazzo Bianco. He carries out research on artistic relations between Liguria and Europe and has published many studies on medieval and Renaissance art, including La cattedrale di Genova nel medioevo (secoli vi-xiv) (1998) and Genova e la Francia: opere, artista, committenti, collezionisti (2003, with Piero Boccardo and  Philippe Sénéchal).