Projects Overview

Explore the projects and discover the stories behind them.

Quarona – Church of San Giovanni al Monte

2026
Wall paintings
13th–16th centuries

Conservation of the Passion of Christ wall paintings in the second bay of San Giovanni al Monte, a historic church preserving medieval mural cycles in Valsesia.

Mira (Venice) – Villa Foscari “La Malcontenta”

2025–2028
Wall paintings
16th century

Restoration of Giambattista Zelotti’s wall paintings in the three frescoed spaces of Palladio’s Villa Foscari: Bacco e Arianna, Prometeo and Caduta dei Giganti.

Parma – Teatro Farnese

2025
Six Stucco sculptures
17th century CE

Conservation and restoration of six seventeenth-century stucco sculptures from the Teatro Farnese, damaged in 1944, to allow for their return to public display.

Vatican City – Necropolis of St Peter

2025 – 2027
Wall paintings, stuccoes, mosaics
2nd century CE.

Conservation of wall paintings, stuccoes and mosaics in Tombs G and B of the Vatican Necropolis, historic Roman-era burial chambers beneath St Peter’s Basilica.

Pesaro, Villa Imperiale

2024 – 2026
wall paintings
16th century CE

Conservation and restoration of Villa Imperiale’s murals with SUPSI and the Courtauld Institute of Art, for Pesaro’s year as Italian Capital of Culture in 2024.

Tarquinia – Maggi Tomb

2024
Wall paintings
5th century BCE

Conservation and restoration of the Maggi Tomb’s fifth-century BCE wall paintings preserving the funerary banquet scene in the Etruscan necropolis of Tarquinia.

Barcelona – MNAC

2023 - 2025
Romanesque wall paintings
11th–12th centuries CE.

Restoration and reintegration of Romanesque murals from Sant Climent de Taüll, Sant Pere del Burgal and Sant Joan de Boí, and the study of Santa Maria de Taüll.

Palermo – A. Salinas Archaeological Museum

2023
Mosaic
3rd century CE

Conservation of the third-century Roman pavement mosaic depicting Orpheus playing music to animals, originally from a Roman villa in the city centre of Palermo.

Varese – Villa Cicogna Mozzoni

2022
wall paintings
1550

Restoration of the sixteenth-century wall paintings on the eastern portico of Villa Cicogna Mozzoni, in close collaboration with the SUPSI conservation project.

Rome – Underground Basilica Porta Maggiore

2021
Stuccoes
1st century CE

Restoration of plaster and stucco decorations in Porta Maggiore’s Underground Basilica, a Roman Neo-Pythagorean monument.

Colmar – Musée Unterlinden

2020
Isenheim Altarpiece
1512–1516

Conservation work on the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald at Musée Unterlinden, including the painted panel of Saint Anthony being Tormented by Demons.

Rome – Domus Aurea

2018
Wall paintings
1st century CE

Conservation of the wall paintings and stucco ornamentation in Room 119 of Nero’s Domus Aurea, depicting Achilles on Skyros, near the celebrated Octagonal Room.

Lodi – Church of San Filippo Neri

2018
Wall paintings
1700–1740

Conservation and restoration of Giorgio Coduri’s wall paintings in the Church of San Filippo Neri in Lodi, an elegant example of eighteenth-century decorations.

Zürich – Tonhalle

2016
Concert-hall organ
19th-century

Advocacy action to reduce the excessive size of the organ, which was only partially successful.

Stammheim – Gasthof Hirschen

2015
Decorated doors
17th–18th centuries

Conservation and restoration of the painted ornamentation on the interior doors of the historical Gasthof Hirschen in Stammheim, dating to the early modern era.

Türnich – Schloss Türnich

2015 – 2023
Chapel wall paintings
17th century

Restoration of the wall paintings in the chapel of Schloss Türnich, a historic castle complex outside Cologne, preserving its characteristic painted decoration.

Varallo – Sacro Monte

2012–2019
Wall paintings and sculptures
15th–16th centuries

Conservation of mural paintings and polychrome sculptural groups in Chapels XI, XII and XLI at Sacro Monte di Varallo, in collaboration with SUPSI in Mendrisio.

Zurich – Villa Patumbah

2014
Ceiling paintings
1880

Conservation and restoration of the decorative painted ceilings in the games room of Villa Patumbah, a nineteenth-century historic estate in the city of Zurich.

Rome – Villa Farnesina

2014
Ceiling paintings
1506 – 1512

Restoration of the grotesque ceiling painting at Villa Farnesina, inspired by ancient Rome’s rich decorative repertoire rediscovered in the Domus Aurea in Rome.

Chiavenna – Palazzo Salis

2013
Wall paintings
1730–1740

Conservation and restoration of the eighteenth-century wall paintings decorating the elegant ballroom of Palazzo Salis, designed by the architect Pietro Solari.

Morbegno – Collegiate Church of San Giovanni

2012 – 2023
Architecture and decoration
1680–1714

Restoration of San Giovanni Collegiate Church, with three volumes on its Baroque architecture in collaboration with Sapienza University.

Morbegno – Palazzo Malacrida

2011 – 2022
Decorative wall paintings
1740

Restoration of Palazzo Malacrida’s interiors, encompassing Giorgio Coduri’s rich decorative wall paintings in the ballroom of this eighteenth-century residence.

Dunhuang – Mogao Cave 465

2010
Wall paintings
Song period (960–1279)

Restoration of the wall paintings in Cave 465 of the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, carried out following a formal invitation to help the site conservation programme.

Tibet, Tholing – Red Temple

2002 – 2009
Wall Paintings
11th century CE

Conservation of the eleventh-century wall paintings in Tholing’s Red Temple, with the Foundation operating as the only foreign sponsor of the restoration works.