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Sara Bassi

Conservative Restoration Officer

Restoration department: polychrome wooden sculptures

sara.bassi@cultura.gov.it

Activity information

Curriculum

A conservator-restorer specialising in painted objects on wooden and textile supports, carved wooden objects, and objects in synthetic materials, worked, assembled and/or painted (professional competence sectors 3, 4 and 5).

In 2009 she obtained a bachelor’s degree (L/41) in Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of Florence. In 2015 she obtained the qualification equivalent to a master’s degree LMR/02 in “Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage”, qualifying her as a professional conservator, from the SAFS of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, with a dissertation on the restoration of an oil painting on plywood from the 1960s and on the study of artist materials.

She then worked as a freelance conservator in Italy and abroad, gaining experience in the restoration of paintings and multi-material sculptures and in the installation of exhibitions, particularly of contemporary art.

She is currently a conservator officer in the Polychrome Wooden Sculptures department of the OPD, of which she held the technical directorship from 2021 to September 2024.

She has taught on the SAFS practical course in “Technical Disciplines of Restoration”, modules on “Cleaning of Painted Surfaces” and “Varnishes for Conservation”; she has also taught “Materials, Techniques and Sources of Contemporary Art” within the theoretical course in “Technology of Constituent Materials” (ING/IND-22). She has supervised dissertations on the restoration of polychrome wooden sculptures and contemporary artworks, and served as specialist coordinator for wooden sculptures, plastic materials and multi-material objects on the specialist master’s programme in “Conservation and Management of Contemporary Art” promoted by the Fondazione CR Firenze and the Fondazione Opificio.

She regularly participates in numerous international continuing professional development courses on the cleaning of early and modern paint layers, the restoration of synthetic and semi-synthetic plastic materials, and the conservation of ethnographic and anthropological heritage.