Elizabeth Kendall, Director of Parma Conservation, trained at the Instituto per L'Arte e Restauro, in Florence, Italy. She later apprenticed under Professor Edo Massini, who was the technical director for the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. 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, Elizabeth 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 Duomo by Lattanzio Gambara; Renaissance paintings by Andrea del Sarto, and numerous fresco cycles in castles and villas throughout Italy. | |
