Domenica Digilio

Curriculum

In 1981 she graduated in Art History from the University of Pisa and in 1986 obtained an advanced diploma in Medieval and Early Modern Art History with a dissertation on the textile heritage of Volterra Cathedral.

During these years she began specialist studies in the art of textiles through a three-year course in the cataloguing and conservation of textile materials organised by the Tuscany Region in collaboration with the Soprintendenza and the University of Pisa. In 1991 a research grant from the Ministry of University and Research enabled her to undertake a one-year placement at the Atelier de Restauration of the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyon.

She has collaborated in the study, restoration and conservation of the textile collections of state, civic and diocesan museums, including the Museo Civico d’Arte in Modena, the Museo Diocesano Tridentino, the Museo Diocesano di Massa and the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi in Lucca. Between 1996 and 2000 she taught Techniques of the Restoration of Ancient Textile Objects at the Centre for Cataloguing and Restoration of Cultural Heritage of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. She has carried out specialist cataloguing campaigns in cathedrals and churches in the territories of the Soprintendenze of Pisa and Lucca, collaborated on major temporary exhibitions, provided consultancy for the reinstallation of historic museums such as the Museo di Palazzo Madama in Turin, and overseen the installation of the textile section of museums including the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Pisa. She has published articles, essays, research studies and catalogue entries on the art of textiles and conservation issues.