Veronica Collina

Conservative Restoration Officer

veronica.collina@cultura.gov.it

Activity information

Curriculum

A conservator-restorer specialising in ceramic, glass, organic, metal and alloy materials and objects.

In 2012 she obtained a bachelor’s degree in History and Protection of Archaeological, Artistic, Archival and Library Heritage (L-1) from the University of Florence, with a dissertation entitled *Giovan Pietro Bellori e Carlo Maratta. La nascita di una nuova concezione di restauro nel tardo Seicento. Analisi degli interventi sugli affreschi di Raffaello alla Farnesiana e nelle Stanze Vaticane*.

In 2018 she obtained her degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (LMR/02) from the School of Advanced Training and Studies of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, with a dissertation entitled *Aria, acqua e ferro. Il restauro di Signal (Takis, 1958) dalla Collezione Peggy Guggenheim di Venezia. Criticità conservative e metodologie di intervento su un’opera cinetica in acciaio esposta all’esterno*.

She has worked as a freelance conservator, collaborating with numerous institutions and major Italian museums including the Uffizi Galleries, the Museo Stibbert and the Museo Marino Marini. She has specialised in the conservation of metal objects, gaining extensive experience on outdoor bronze works and contemporary art.

She has collaborated as a teaching assistant with the School of Advanced Training of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in the subject REST/01, on the modules: Restoration of indoor bronze objects and/or objects in semi-confined environments – sculptures, and Restoration of bronze and iron objects conserved outdoors. She has also collaborated with the School of Advanced Training of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro on seminar and practical site work relating to the works in the open-air contemporary art museum at Piscina Aperta in Pinerolo (Turin).

Since 2024 she has been a conservator officer at the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the Provinces of Chieti and Pescara, on secondment to the Bronzes and Ancient Arms department of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence.