Phd in HISTORY OF ART

email: eliana.billi@uniroma1.it
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room: stanza 8

Eliana Billi got the degree in Art History at Sapienza University of Rome in 1999, where she also got the post-graduate qualification in Medieval and Modern Art History (2003) and PhD in Art History (2007). Between 1993 and 1997 she attended the Central Institute of Restoration where, in 1998 she graduated in Restoration of Cultural Heritage, then specializing in the same Institute in 1998. Since the beginning she has always put together her professional work as a restorer with her activity of scholar, focusing on research and education about medieval art, preservation and restoration by attending Masters, postgraduate schools and post-graduation high degree courses all over Italy. Her research focuses mainly on the history of restoration in France and in Italy in the context of the Neomedieval revival of the Nineteenth Century and the polychrome of medieval stone sculpture, analyzed in relation to the technical treatise. She has taken part to several national and international conferences and she is the author of various scientific magazine articles and of two monographs. She has collaborated for a long time with the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and the Central Institute of Restoration in Rome, where she joined Michele Cordaro in the coordination of Masters and post-graduate high-level training courses for the Management of the cultural heritage. Since 2015 she has been Researcher in Museology and Art Criticism and Restoration at the Department of History of Art of Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Theory and History of Restoration and History of Artistic Techniques. Between 2015 and 2017 she directed the restoration works of the mural painting L’Italia tra le Arti e le Scienze by Mario Sironi and curated the exhibition Sironi svelato. Il restauro del murale della Sapienza.