EDUCATION
1981-1985
Graduate from the State Academia of Art
of Bergamo, Italy.
The program included: art history,
decoration, and drawing of figures, architecture, clay modeling,
chemistry, Italian literature, Italian history and mathematics.
1985-1988
Graduate from the painting conservation
program of the Regional Conservation Center in Botticino (Brescia), Italy.
It is recognized and supported by the Istituto Centrale del Restauro of
Rome (ICR).
The program included courses in:
restoration of paintings, frescoes and polychrome sculptures, art history,
chemistry, conservation chemistry, woodworking, graphic design,
documentation techniques and treatment proposals.
1988
British Museum, London, England.
Internship at the mural painting and
stone conservation department.
Work was performed on a Chinese painting
c.1400 on a support of clay and straw, and on two sculptures from Gandhara,
India, circa 2-3 century AD
1991-1995
Fine Art Conservation Laboratories
(FACL, Inc.), Santa Barbara, California (USA).
Paintings conservator.
Conservation treatment responsibilities
included all phases of restoration.
· Analytical examination of paintings
with the stereo binocular microscope, the polarizing microscope, infrared
reflectography and ultraviolet visible fluorescence, and x radiography.
· Cleaning of paintings included
customizing and formulating cleaning solutions.
· Repairs of rips and holes
· Performing vapor treatment to remove
cracks and distortion in paintings.
· Lining the paintings to reinforce the
originals.
· Filling of losses and texture
matching.
· In painting (color matching)
· Varnishing.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCES
FRESCOES AND WALL PAINTINGS
VICENZA, Villa Valmarana ai Nani.
Restoration of frescoes of Giambattista
Tiepolo in the Iliad Room of the Villa.
VICENZA, Palazzo Barbaran da Porto by
Andrea Palladio, 1570.
Restoration of frescoes and plaster
relief in two rooms of the palace.
VERONA, Palazzo Ravignani,
Restoration of three ceiling frescoes by
a Venetian Master of 16th century.
POSSAGNO (TV), Gypsoteca Canoviana.
Restoration of the studies in clay and
plaster casts by Antonio Canova.
BRESCIA, Chiesa del Carmine.
Restoration of the frescoes in the apse
of the church.
ISEO (BS), Chiesa di S. Maria del
Mercato.
Restoration of frescoes of 16th
century on the north wall.
FRANCE
BLOIS, Castle
Restoration of the 19th
century decorations on the Francesco I aisle.
LE PUY, Cathedral
Restoration of frescoes of XI century
and capitals of XI and XVI century.
USA
LOS ANGELES, University of California
(UCLA).
Moore Hall, Rm 100.Restoration of
decorated ceiling with feaux motifs.
LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles Central
Library.
Restoration of a large wall painting
damaged from earthquake and fire, in the Rotunda. Restoration of a
painting by Albert Herter in the Old History Room.
SAN SIMEON, California, Hearst Castle.
Restoration of a 16th century
Italian detached fresco in the Vestibule of the castle.
VERONA, private conservation laboratory.
Restoration of the paintings on panels
belonging to a private museum in the oldest library in Verona.
*The "Last Supper" painted by
a Cretan master in 14th century.
*The "Passion over Christ"
painted in the 13th century by the workshop of Verona ( bottega
di Cespo da Garofano).
*Virgin and Child by Nicolň Zafuri in
the 14th century.
USA, Fine Art Conservation Laboratories, Santa Barbara, California.
Conservation of paintings in-lab, from
auction houses, private collections, art galleries and private clients.
Work included: Michal Pacher, Mignon,
Hieronymous Bosch, Brugel the Younger, and numerous masterpieces by
William Wendt, Edgard Payne, Granville Redmond, Franz Bishoff , Guy Rose
etc.
CONFERENCES
MALIBU, California (USA). J. Paul Getty
Museum
Symposium: the structural Conservation
of Panel Painting.
BRESCIA.
Conference: Method of utilization of new
materials for conservation.
LANGUAGES
Italian: Mother tongue.
English: Fluent understanding and
speaking, good writing.
French: Sufficient understanding and
speaking, scholastic writing
Spanish: Good understanding and
speaking, scholastic writing.
