Curriculum
Following a master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Conservation from the Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, in 2013 he graduated from the School of Restoration at the University of Urbino (LMR/02), obtaining his qualification to practise as a professional conservator (PFP2 pathway). In 2018 he attended the School in Preventive Conservation organised by the GNAM (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna) in Rome. From 2013 to 2018 he worked as a freelance conservator on objects under the protection of local soprintendenze. Between 2014 and 2015 he collaborated with the Paintings Conservation Laboratories of the Vatican Museums. Since December 2018 he has been a member of staff at the Ministry of Culture with the qualification of conservator officer at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. Assigned to the Moveable Paintings Conservation Laboratory, he has specialised in the structural aspects of panel paintings and of composite wood materials used in a contemporary context. Since 2019 he has taught at the SAFS of the Opificio and, from the same year, has participated in coordinating the securing of works damaged by the 2016 central Italy earthquake and stored in the Santo Chiodo deposit in Spoleto. He has taught on the master’s programme in Conservation and Management of Contemporary Art organised by the Fondazione CR Firenze – OPD (2021) and, previously, on specialist master’s programmes held by the universities of Roma Tre and LUMSA, and in seminars organised by the universities of Urbino and Genoa. He is the author of more than twenty specialist publications on the conservation of panel paintings and has participated in several conferences on the subject.
