Phd in HISTORY OF ART

Research: Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings in Italy: study of executive techniques and development of systems for their conservation

Cristiana Todaro obtained the qualification of Cultural Heritage’s Conservator in 2000 at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence; in 2011-2012 she attended the 1st Master in Restoration and Conservation of Contemporary Art Works with a dissertation on Piero d’Orazio and Graziano Marini’s La stanza della Pittura in the Atelier sul mare in Castel di Tusa (Messina). In 2016 she obtained a BA in Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at La Tuscia University, Viterbo.
In 2005 she was a co-founder of the private company Faberestauro, for which she has actively worked until 2019 at the restoration and conservation of ancient and contemporary artistic works under public and private commissions. For several years she carried out training activities as adjunct professor for institutions entitled to issue the official title of “restorer”: namely from 2008 to 2012 for Palermo University and from 2012 to 2013 she took part in an international project, sponsored by UNESCO, and based in Angkor Conservation Institution, Siem Reap, Cambodia. From 2013 to 2019 she taught several courses in Restoration of wall paintings and Restoration of contemporary wall paintings (ABPR 24) at the Academy of Fine Arts, Verona, where she also covered the role of supervisor for several dissertations concerning her expertise in the restoration of ancient and contemporary wall paintings. In 2019 she got the qualification of Conservation Officer from the Ministry of Culture, and at that stage she worked at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure as Senior Mural Paintings and Stucco conservator, thus carrying out assignments of technical direction, planning and making also actual restoration interventions, as well as teaching activities at the School of Higher Education (MA) and in the recent Master Course in Management and conservation of contemporary works of art.
Among the works subject to intervention and study carried out at that stage several can be mentioned: The Wall of Paradise, a part of mural cycle of Giotto and his school in the Maddalena chapel in Bargello National Museum, Florence, the mural paintings representing Dante and Boccaccio in the cycle of Andrea del Castagno’s Illustrious Men and Women, Domenico Ghirlandaio's San Girolamo in studio, Sol LeWitt’s work Rectangles of colors, Wall Drawing #736 (1993), at Centro Pecci, Prato.