Lecturers

Kristina Krulić works and lives in Zagreb, Croatia. She holds a degree in conservation-restoration from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and is currently a student of the Interdisciplinary doctoral programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences (History and Theory of Conservation-Restoration) at the University of Ljubljana. Since 2016, Kristina has worked as the head of the Department for Wall Paintings and Mosaics at the Croatian Conservation Institute, where she has been an integral part of the team since 2007. Throughout her work, she gained valuable experience in researching and documenting immovable heritage, and she has also taken a leadership role in various conservation-restoration projects focused on wall paintings. She has participated in professional workshops, conferences, and international projects, and she has also organized several.  Her recent work has been influenced by the seismic events in 2020, with a primary focus on addressing damage to cultural heritage caused by the earthquakes that hit Zagreb and Central Croatia.

Brief biography

Brief biography

Brief biography

Teresa Valle Fernández, a conservator and restorer of Mural Painting at the Subdirectorate General of the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute (Directorate General of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture) where she has held a public opposition position since 2017. She specialized in fresco restoration (UIA, Florence), sculpture and painting restoration (ESCRBC and CEROA, Madrid), and Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies from the UOC. She has been involved with interventions for museums, institutions, autonomous communities, collectors, as well as numerous singular interventions all over the country.

Currently, she coordinates the interventions for mural paintings and historic cladding sponsored by the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute, as well as the preliminary studies associated with these interventions. As well as these, Teresa coordinated the restoration of mural ensembles at Toledo’s San Juan de los Reyes, Monforte de Lemos’ San Vicente do Pino, Lorca’s Virgen de la Huertas, Cuenca’s Cathedral, Oviedo’s San Julián de los Prados, and Seville’s Real Alcazar.

She has collaborated with and directed courses on intervention methodologies in mural painting, and is working on intervention protocols and editing the Coreman’s Project: guidelines for intervention in mural painting.

Giuliano Romalli is a manager in the Italian Ministry of Culture.

He graduated in Literature with a specialty in Medieval Art History at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he also obtained a Doctorate in Art History. He then completed training at the School of Specialization in Historical-Artistic Heritage at the University of Udine.

After working as a contract researcher and teacher of the History of Medieval Art at the Sapienza University of Rome, in 2012, he won the public competition for Art History Officer. He entered the Ministry of Culture, where he worked in protection and valorization Areas of the Soprintendenza of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape of Eastern Veneto and at the General Directorate of Museums. In 2016, he arrived at the Central Restoration Institute, the highest technical protection body of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Here he designed and directed important conservation interventions on works of art of great importance, including Giotto’s frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel and the Capitoline of San Antonio in Padua, the mural paintings of Tomaso de Modena in the Capitoline of San Nicolò in Treviso, the funerary monuments of Arnolfo de Cambio in the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli in Rome, the Polyptychs of Antonio Vivarini in the Golden Chapel of Saint Zacharias in Venice.

In 2023, he won the competition for public managers organized by the National School of Administration of the Presidency of the Italian Council, and from 2024 – after completing the senior management training course at the SNA – he chose to rededicate his new career as a manager to the Ministry of Culture.

He is the author of numerous publications on the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage, the history of art, architecture, and urban planning in the Middle Ages. He teaches medieval art history in the five-year Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage degree at the Central Restoration Institute of Rome.

Simona Sajeva, an engineer specialising in conservation and the founder of Interfaces / Engineering applied to Conservation. She focuses mainly on supporting structures and the influence of buildings and their environmental context on the conservation of wall paintings, surfaces, and architectural decorations.

Over the past 25 years, she has applied her research not only to her professional practice, but also to teaching activities, training courses, and publications. Simona is the author of original works, including ‘Pitture murali, i degradi di origine meccanica. Manuale per restauratori ed ingegneri’, published in 2014 (with a next edition planned for April 2024), and ‘Conservazione delle decorazioni architettoniche, il ruolo delle strutture di supporto’, published in 2022.

As of 2022, Simona is actively collaborating with the ISCMP  (International Scientific Committee on Mural Painting) of ICOMOS, eventually taking over the chairmanship in 2023. Her participation and involvement in the field of artistic heritage conservation has earned her several awards, including the ‘le Geste d’or 2023’ prize.

They carry out numerous restorations for Superintendencies and Museums in most parts of Italy, for International Organisations (ICCROM, UNESCO, UNDP) or non-profit organisations, they also collaborate with various university faculties through seminars and conferences as well as numerous publications on restoration.

They restored wall paintings by the Master of St. Francis, Cimabue and Giotto in Assisi (Basilica Inferiore e Superiore) and Padua (Scrovegni), in cooperation with the I.C.R., by Cavallini in Rome(Giudizio Universale nella chiesa di S. Cecilia), by Beato Angelico (Cappella Niccolina in Vaticano), by Pinturicchio (cappella Baglioni a Spello), by Raphael and Perugino (S. Severo a Perugia), by Parmigianino (S. Maria della Steccata a Parma), by Annibale Carracci (Palazzo Farnese a Roma), by Guercino (Cupola del Duomo di Piacenza e numerose pale d’altare), by Domenichino (S. Andrea della Valle a Roma) as well as numerous interventions on paintings on canvas and panels, including several paintings by Caravaggio (Madonna dei Palafrenieri, Bacchino Malato, Giuditta e Oloferne, S. Giovanni Battista e S.Gerolamo Borghese, S. Francesco di Carpineto e Martirio di S. Orsola), Raphael (Doppio ritratto Doria Pamphilj) Titian, Lorenzo Lotto, Carlo Crivelli and Annibale Carracci (lunette Aldrobrandini).

After having been busy in Padua with the restoration of the frescoes of the Scuola del Santo (Titian, Bartolomeo Montagna, etc.) in collaboration with Gianluigi Colalucci, and having completed the recovery and restoration of Mantegna’s frescoes in the Ovetari Chapel, which were largely destroyed by bombing during World War II.

Direction and coordination of the restoration of the frescoes in the Monumental Cemetery in Pisa.

Missions abroad: Ethiopia, Thailand, Myanmar, Tibet, India, China, Turkey, Colombia, U.S.A., Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan, where they also carry out teaching activities for local restorers through theoretical courses and worksite schools

In 2015, they were awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature and Philosophy by the University of Freiburg.

Donatella was awarded the ‘Premio Speciale alla Memoria’ in the 2018 edition of the ‘Premio Rotondi ai salvatori dell’arte’.

Born in Padua on 06.05.1961, she graduated in ‘Restauro di dipinti murali, stucchi, dipinti su tavola, su tela, su cuoio e sculture lignee policrome’ at the Central Institute for Restoration in 1986, where she specialised in ‘Restauro dei materiali lapidei’ the following year.

In 1989, she founded, together with Giovanni Cecchini and other colleagues, the C.B.Art. Consortium, with which, as Legal Representative and Technical Director, she carried out various works on movable paintings, wall paintings, stuccoes, stone works and decorated architectural surfaces. Among them, some of the most significant are: frescoes and stuccoes in the Domus Aurea, frescoes and fragments in the Upper Basilica of St..Francis in Assisi, frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, fragments of the Ovetari Chapel in Padua, frescoes in Santa Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum, paintings on canvas by Valentin de Boulogne, Giovanni Lanfranco and Vittore Carpaccio, paintings on wood, mosaics, stone works in the Palatine Chapel in Palermo, statues and other stone works from the Capitoline Museums and the Roman Forum, mosaics from the Archaeological Park of Rome and Ostia Antica, stuccoes from the Underground Basilica of Porta Maggiore, architectural vestments from the Colosseum, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, the Temples of the Sibyl and Tiburno in Tivoli, and the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome.

She also collaborated with UNESCO on missions to the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan.

Since 2008, she has also been an employee of the Vatican Museums at the ‘Laboratorio Restauro Materiali Lapidei’ (Restoration Laboratory for Stone Materials), where she works on museum stone works and architectural surfaces.

She has participated in several conferences both in Italy and abroad, publishing her papers in the proceedings.

She has always been involved in updating activities on materials and methodologies for restoration, such as the use of laser ablation and the study of innovative products for cleaning and consolidation.

Full Professor, which research and teaching experience developed has been focused on the diagnosis, preservation and conservation of Cultural Heritage (CH). She has collaborated with museums and cultural institutions, such as the Valencian Institute of Conservation and Restoration (IVCR + i), Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH), Cádiz Museum, Écija Museum, Science Museum of Granada, etc.

Additionally, She has developed works related to CH issues in several countries, i.e., the United Kingdom; Belgium, Italy, Romania, Cuba, Peru, Colombia, Panama, etc.

She has participated in 25 national and international projects, contracts and agreements funded by the Union European, Ministry, Autonomous Communities and public/private organizations/ companies. She has been the head researcher in 15 of those projects, highlighting a Project of Excellence of the Junta de Andalucía (RIVUPH), Two RETOS project of the Government of Spain (ART-RIK & FENIX), two projects of Junta Andalucía (consejería Vivienda) for international cooperation and Andalusian cataloguing of CH (Murallas), a national project of proof of concept, a regional project of international Campus, and a recent European project of JPI (ATLTAS). All these project are focus on conservation, risks and vulnerability of CH.

She has worked in the University of Amberes (Belgium) as assistant lecturer (12 months), invited professor (6 months) at the University of Oxford (UK), and invited researcher (12 months) at ENEA, Frascati (Roma, Italy) and University Cá Foscar (6 months).

She is a member of the International Excellency Campus of the University of Jaén in cultural and natural heritage and the Andalusian Council of CH.