Maria Rosa Lanfranchi

Conservative Restoration Officer

mariarosa.lanfranchi@cultura.gov.it

Activity information

Curriculum

Born in Bergamo in 1962, following her artistic secondary school diploma she completed the restoration course at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in the Mural Paintings and Stucco department, and in 1984 defended her dissertation on “Cleaning Methods and Materials from the 18th Century to the Present Day.” She also completed the advanced course, carrying out in 1985 the restoration of a stucco by Donatello in the pendentives of the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo in Florence: *The Vision of Saint John at Patmos*.

After several years as an employee of a conservation firm, from 1991 she began working as a senior technician at the Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte, and from 1992 as a conservator officer at the Opificio. She served as technical director of the Mural Paintings and Stucco Conservation Department until September 2024; she is coordinator for the technical disciplines of PFP1 and a lecturer on SAFS courses at the OPD.

Among the projects to which she has devoted her attention: Piero della Francesca’s *Legend of the True Cross* in Arezzo; the Camera di Paola Gonzaga by Parmigianino at Fontanellato (Parma); the Planetary Rooms by Pietro da Cortona at Palazzo Pitti; the *Legend of the True Cross* in the Cappella Maggiore of Santa Croce in Florence; the Sala delle Asse by Leonardo da Vinci in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. She is currently (2023–25) working on the restoration project for Giotto’s *Stories of Saint Francis* in Santa Croce in Florence.