Andrea Santacesaria

Curriculum

Currently retired, he worked for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism from 1978 to 2022. From 1984 he worked at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, carrying out conservation of painted wooden supports and treating works by Giotto, Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rosso Fiorentino, Fra Angelico, Beccafumi and others. He was head of the Painted Wooden Supports department at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. He also taught at the School of Advanced Training of the Opificio from 1987, was a member of the Getty Conservation Institute’s Panel Paintings Initiative, coordinator of the securing operations for works damaged by the 2012 Emilia earthquake at the Palazzo Ducale in Sassuolo, co-responsible for the operations to move and reassemble the Auschwitz Memorial from the concentration camp to Florence (EX3 venue, December 2015–January 2016), and a member of the mission to Nepal (1–11 July 2015) tasked by Minister Franceschini with assessing possibilities for intervention on damaged cultural heritage.

In 2016 he joined the “Blue Helmets for Culture” initiative promoted by Minister Franceschini to operate in critical situations for the safeguarding of works of art threatened by natural disasters or terrorism. He served as coordinator of the securing operations for works damaged by the 2016 central Italy earthquake at the Santo Chiodo deposit in Spoleto. He has also published numerous contributions on the conservation of panel paintings and participated in numerous conferences and study days in Italy and abroad.