Lucia Maria Bresci

Conservative Restoration Officer

luciamaria.bresci@cultura.gov.it

Activity information

Curriculum

She obtained her diploma from the SAFS of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in 2008 in the Paintings on Panel and Canvas department, with a dissertation on the tensioning of canvas paintings. From 2010 to 2018 she ran a sole trading company through which she collaborated with both public institutions and private firms, maintaining an ongoing collaboration with the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in conservation and teaching roles. Since 2018 she has been a conservator officer at the Ministry of Culture, working in conservation, restoration and teaching in the Moveable Paintings department of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.

Among her principal restoration projects: Andrea Mantegna, *Madonna and Child*, tempera on canvas, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli; Andrea Mantegna, *Madonna and Child*, c. 1475, tempera on canvas, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara; Giorgio Vasari, *Last Supper*, 1546, oil on panel, Florence, Museo di Santa Croce; Guido da Siena, *Dossal with Scenes of the Transfiguration, Entry of Christ into Jerusalem and Resurrection of Lazarus*, c. 1260–70, tempera on canvas, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale; Cima da Conegliano, *Saint Sebastian*, c. 1500, oil on panel, Florence, Berenson Collection at Villa I Tatti; Domenico Ghirlandaio, *Christ Crowned with Thorns*, 15th century, painting on canvas, Florence, Church of Ognissanti.