Machtelt Brüggen Israëls is an art historian living in Amsterdam and Tuscany. She is a professor of Italian Renaissance Art at the University of Amsterdam and the Università di Firenze. Machtelt held a fellowship at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, for which she edited books on Sassetta’s masterpiece for Sansepolcro and the Italian paintings in the Berenson Collection. Her monograph on Piero della Francesca was published in London in 2020.