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Cristiana Todaro

Conservative Restoration Officer

Restoration department: Mural paintings and stucco decorations

cristiana.todaro@cultura.gov.it

Activity information

Curriculum

Cristiana Todaro obtained her qualification as a Cultural Heritage Conservator in 2000 from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence; in 2011–12 she completed the first Master’s Programme in Conservation and Restoration of Contemporary Art with a dissertation on the *Stanza della Pittura* by Piero d’Orazio and Graziano Marini at the Atelier sul Mare in Castel di Tusa, Messina. In 2016 she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of Tuscia in Viterbo. She is currently engaged in a PhD in Art History at La Sapienza University in Rome.

She was a partner and co-founder of the firm Faberestauro from 2005 to 2019, working on the conservation and restoration of ancient and contemporary cultural heritage owned by public and private institutions, including the painted rooms of Jason and Aeneas by the Carracci in Palazzo Fava in Bologna, the *La quiete* room by Pietro da Cortona in Palazzo Venturi Ginori in Florence, the Chapel of Sant’Antonio Abate at Le Campora in Florence with mural paintings attributed to Pietro Nelli and Agnolo Gaddi, and the work *Albero d’Acqua + labbra* by Giuseppe Penone (1982) at the Fattoria di Celle in Santomato (Pistoia).

She has participated in research projects in collaboration with academic and research institutions (University of Florence, CNR, Opificio delle Pietre Dure) funded by the Tuscany Region.

For several years she has taught as a contract lecturer at various institutions: from 2008 to 2012 at the University of Palermo, and from 2012 to 2013 on the international project sponsored by UNESCO with the Angkor Conservation institution in Siem Reap, Cambodia. At the Accademia di Belle Arti in Verona she taught from 2013 to 2019 on the courses Restoration of Mural Paintings and Restoration of Contemporary Mural Paintings (ABPR 24), supervising several dissertations on the conservation of early and contemporary mural paintings.

Since 2019 she has been a conservator officer at the Ministry of Culture at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, carrying out project planning, technical direction and hands-on conservation work, as well as teaching at the School of Advanced Training and on the recent Master’s Programme in Management and Conservation of Contemporary Art.

Among the works treated and studied at the Opificio: the Paradise wall from Giotto’s fresco cycle in the Magdalene Chapel of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence; the mural paintings depicting Dante and Boccaccio from Andrea del Castagno’s cycle of *Famous Men and Women*; Domenico Ghirlandaio’s *Saint Jerome in His Study*; and Sol LeWitt’s *Rectangles of Colors, Wall Drawing #736* at the Centro Pecci in Prato. She directed the restoration of the mural paintings in the Room of Geographical Maps at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence and edited the related publication.

Many of her projects have been the subject of publications and presented at conferences and study days.