Grazia De Cesare

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Grazia De Cesare, born in 1964, is a qualified conservator with a diploma in paintings and an advanced qualification in stone materials from the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome, a degree from the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, and a specialisation in preventive conservation from the Sorbonne in Paris. Running her own conservation practice since 1993, she works for public institutions in Italy and abroad; since 2001 she has been a conservator at the ICR, now ISCR, on a 50% part-time basis in order to continue her professional practice, and holds a teaching, research and conservation appointment in the contemporary art materials conservation laboratory.

She has taught on conservation courses covering wood, mural paintings, stone, mosaic, ceramics, contemporary art and materials technology at the Malta Centre for Restoration, the Università Carlo Bo in Urbino, the Accademia di Belle Arti in L’Aquila and Macerata, and abroad on UNESCO cooperation missions in Algeria, at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, in Jordan, Israel, at the CIK in Belgrade and for the Istituto Italo-Latino-Americano in Bolivia.

She currently holds a teaching appointment with the MIUR, on leave of absence from the MiBACT. She is the author of approximately eighty articles in specialist journals and conference proceedings.