The Phidias gallery was opened in Reggio Emilia in 1976 by the brothers Antonio and Claudio Esposito, specializing in neoclassical furniture, 18th and 19th century European painting and sculpture.
In 1988 a new gallery is opened in Milan where various thematic exhibitions are held such as the one on orientalist painting of the nineteenth century, on French candelabra of the period of the Revolution and on sculpture of the nineteenth century.
Once the Milan gallery is closed, after 10 years of brilliant and profitable experience, the Reggio Emilia office is enlarged with the opening of a new showroom in an ancient Noble Building in the historic center.