RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION STUDIES

The LdM Restoration and Conservation Department is dedicated to providing students with the skills required to restore precious artwork from around the world. Students participate in the restoration of frescoes and murals; work with self-made oil paints; and explore the techniques of filding and egg tempera. They also explore the differences and techniques between frescoes on wet plaster and dry plaster.

With LdM, students will work directly and exclusively on original artifacts from the 14th to 19th centuries, learning industry skills while at the same time restoring actual art objects. Students have had the privilege of restoring objects from the Medici Chapel Museum, and 17th century frescoes from the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

These exceptional opportunities are provided under the supervision of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici. LdM's international reputation for excellence in Restoration and Conservation continues to grow as students work alongside Restoration Expert, Lorenzo Casamenti, in Italy, Nepal, Chile, and India. Casamenti has been involved in more than 800 church restorations around the world.

 

FACILITIES:

Fully equipped lab features:

- Authentic pieces from 14th to 19th centuries to restore

- Industry skills with the collaboration with professional institutes of Florence

- Computer lab

- Continuously updated library of books and magazines

At LdM students have the opportunity to learn from the same experts who have restored the Magi Chapel in Palazzo Medici-Riccardi and paintings in the Uffizi Gallery, and who collaborate with top resto­ration institutions such as the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.

In 2009, a group of students accompanied Lorenzo Casamenti of the Restoration Department to restore the main fresco of Christ and 12 Indian priests at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, near Gol Dak Khana, in India.