BARBARA CATTANEO

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVIII
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supervisor: Prof.ssa Chiara Piva
co-supervisor: Prof.ssa Raffaella Perna

Research:

Ministry of Culture employee since 1999, first at the National Central Library of Florence, then at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, where she is a Senior paper and photograph conservator, and Head of the training program in Archival and Library materials (PFP 5) of the School of Higher Education (MA) in Conservation. Since 2019, she has been an associate researcher of the Institute of applied physics "Nello Carrara" (IFAC) - National Research Council (CNR) in Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) for the Photographic Memory project.
She holds a BA in Cultural Heritage Sciences and a MA in Archival and Library Sciences, both achieved (cum laude) at the University of Florence. She is also a graduated and qualified conservator (Sectors 9, 10 – paper, photograph, film, digital materials). The most important training experiences in the field of paper and photograph conservation were achieved at the Trinity College Dublin (1994) George Eastman House in Rochester (NY) (2010) and through the courses of the Getty Conservation Institute in Budapest and Prague (2014, 2015), and ICCROM in Tokyo and Berlin (2012, 2013).
Professor of Photograph conservation and restoration at OPD and ICPAL, adjunct professor at the Specialisation School of historical and artistic heritage at the University of Florence (Identification and Preservation of Photographic Processes - L/ART-04), she has collaborated as a lecturer with numerous institutions, including the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, the Academies of Fine Arts of Brera and Bologna, the University of Udine, the University of Eastern Finland.

Research products

  • 11573/1679564 - 2023 - The Degradation of Daguerreotypes and the Relationship with Their Multi-Material Structure: A Multimodal Investigation (01a Articolo in rivista)
    BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1671388 - 2022 - The Colors of the Butterfly Wings: Non-Invasive Microanalytical Studies of Hand-Coloring Materials in 19th-Century Daguerreotypes (01a Articolo in rivista)
    BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1671981 - 2021 - Green and greener solvents in photographic conservation (04b Atto di convegno in volume)
    BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1671419 - 2021 - Colour Photography and Film: Sharing knowledge of analysis, preservation, conservation, migration of analogue and digital materials – 2021 (06a Curatela)
    BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1671993 - 2020 - La risposta alle emergenze: dall’excursus storico sul salvataggio di materiale fotografico alluvionato agli spunti metodologici per il progetto Memoria Fotografica (04b Atto di convegno in volume)
    BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1671994 - 2020 - «Memoria fotografica». Storia di un recupero collettivo. Atti del Convegno (06a Curatela)
    BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1677608 - 2019 - I negativi su vetro della Commissione Vinciana, un'esperienza di cantiere scuola presso il Museo Galileo di Firenze (02a Capitolo o Articolo)
    ANDREA BERNARDONI, BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1671391 - 2013 - Il restauro della fotografia. Materiali fotografici e cinematografici, analogici e digitali (06a Curatela)
    BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1671399 - 2013 - I Positivi argentici in bianco e nero (02a Capitolo o Articolo)
    BARBARA CATTANEO
  • 11573/1671387 - 2008 - Physico-chemical characterization and conservation issues of photographs dated between 1890 and 1910 (01a Articolo in rivista)
    BARBARA CATTANEO

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