Elizabeth Kendall, Director of Parma Conservation, did her Masters Training at the Instituto per L'Arte e Restauro, in Florence, Italy. She then trained under Edo Massini, who was the technical director for Florence's prestigious coservation laboratory, La Fortezza da Basso. Between 1985 1995, she was employed to work on conservation projects sponsored by the Italian government. Spending half of her time in Florence and the other half in Parma, she conserved paintings by Velazques and Federico Barocci damaged in the 1993 Uffizi bombing; the Byzantine frescoes in the Battistero di Parma, both true and 'a secco', dating from 1100 to 1400; the frescoes by Corregio in the Cupola of San Giovanni, Parma; the frescoes in Parma's Buomo by Lattanzio Gambara; Renaissance paintings by Andrea del Sarto, and numerous fresco cycles in castles and villas throughout Italy. | |
