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Lucia Ghedin

lucia.ghedin@cultura.gov.it

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Lucia Ghedin, a conservator of ceramic, glass and metal objects, obtained her diploma from the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in 1989 and graduated in 2003 in Cultural Heritage Sciences with a dissertation on gilt glass of early Christian date. She spent ten years working on the conservation of archaeological material at the cooperative CO.RE.AR. and on teaching the conservation of metal and ceramic objects, participating among other projects (1997–98) in the programme funded by the MAE – Development Cooperation and implemented by the ICR and IsIAO for the “Centre for the Conservation and Restoration of the Historical and Cultural Heritage of North-Western China” in Xi’an, China.

Since 1996 she has participated annually in the Italian Archaeological Mission in Central Anatolia at the site of Arslantepe — a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2023 — working on the conservation of materials in unfired clay, ceramic, bone and ivory, copper alloys and iron from historical periods spanning the 5th to the 1st millennium BC.

A member of MiC staff since 2000 and a conservator officer since 2019, she works on the conservation of engraved metal printing plates at the Diagnostic Laboratory for Plates (of which she has been head since 2019) at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, which holds the world’s largest collection of approximately 24,000 plates. Since 2019 she has also been head of the historic printing workshop of the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica. She has made a substantial contribution to establishing the current operational protocol for the conservation of engraved plates in both copper and zinc, and developed — in collaboration with other specialists in the field — the Conservation Record for Intaglio Plates, presented at METALESPAÑA 2008.

The area in which the Laboratory particularly excels is diagnostic imaging investigation, which enables the identification of engraving techniques used on metal plates by artists ranging from the 16th century to the present day (notable publications include studies on Pietro Testa, Salvator Rosa, Giorgio Morandi, Jean Pierre Velly, Luigi Calamatta, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Raffaello Schiaminossi and Marcantonio Raimondi).