Basics of Chemistry applied to restoration | History of Modern Art | Basics of Physics applied to Restoration | Cataloguing and Archive management | Design for restoration | Photography for Cultural heritage | Paper and parchment Restoration techniques | Basic IT skills | History of Medieval Art | History and Theory of Restoration 1 | Restoration of articles in paper and parchment 1 | Cultural heritage Legislation | Basics of Biology applied to Restoration | Photography techniques | Techniques of leather and hide products |  Techniques and technologies of art graphics for restoration | Paper technologies | Bookbinding techniques | Digital image processing | IT for restoration | History of drawing and artwork | Technologies of Materials for Restoration | Restoration of books and archive materials 1| Video editing | Chemistry applied to Restoration | Restoration of  articles in paper and parchment  2 | Restoration of photographic materials 1 | History of contemporary art | Building site health and safety legislation | History of printing and publishing | Industrial chemistry | English for Communication Arts 1 |  Diagnostics 1 |  Conservation issues of contemporary art | Restoration of books and archive materials 2| Restoration of photographic materials 2 | Restoration of film and video | Restoration of digital materials | History of the new media | Methods of handling works of art | English for Communication Arts 2 | Diagnostics 2| History of artistic techniques | Restoration of articles in paper and parchment 3

Every year the School takes in 10 students for each academic specialization after passing the admission tests. The test include a graphic design test, common to all profiles, a profile-specific aptitude test and a general knowledge test. For specific information on admissions please contact the Student Administration Office.

The multiple choice theoretical test includes a common section of general culture concerning art history, natural sciences (chemistry, biology, physics, earth sciences) and English language, and a specific section for each profile chosen. To pass this test, we recommend consulting the suggested bibliography (Annex 1).

The drawing test, as with all profiles, consists in the graphic transposition of an artistic artefact, or part of it, conducted by means of a photographic reproduction. The drawing must be done with a black graphite pencil, in linear stroke and without chiaroscuro, in a reproduction in scale (to be established) with respect to the format of the photograph (Annex 2).

The aptitude test of integration of gaps, specific for PFP5, consists in the integration with watercolor or in colored pencils of the circumscribed gaps present on the facsimiles of graphic works, in different techniques, which they offered to each candidate.

The test is multiple choice, divided into two sections:

1. SECTION COMMON TO ALL THREE EDUCATIONAL PROFILES = 40 QUESTIONS

• General Art History: 20 questions
• Nature sciences (chemistry, biology, physics): 10 questions
• Questions in English: 10 questions

2. SPECIFIC SECTION FOR EACH TRAINING PROFILE CHOSEN = 20 QUESTIONS

• 20 specific questions relating to the PFP1 sector
• 20 specific questions relating to the PFP2 sector
• 20 specific questions relating to the PFP5 sector

• Bertelli Carlo, Briganti Giuliano, Giuliano Antonio, Storia dell’Arte italiana per le scuole superiori,  Mondadori Bruno Scolastica (o analogo manuale di scuola superiore)

• Appunti per un Manuale di Storia e di Teoria del Restauro. Dispense per gli Studenti Collana Storia e Teoria del Restauro, di Marco Ciatti, 2009, Edifir

• Atkins, Jones, Fondamenti di chimica generale, Zanichelli Editore

• Matteini, Moles, La chimica nel restauro, Nardini editore

• AA. VV. Chimica per l’Arte, Feltrinelli, Milano

• G. Caneva, M.P. Nugari, O. Salvatori (a cura di), La biologia vegetale per i Beni Culturali, vol.I, Nardini editore, Firenze 2005

• AA.VV. Restauro del marmo: opere e problemi, Quaderni dell’Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Opus Libri, 1986

• AA.VV., Materiali lapidei, Bollettino d’Arte supplemento al n. 41 (1987)

• AA.VV., I colori del bianco. Policromia nella scultura antica, De Luca Editori d’Arte, Roma, 2004

• L. Borgioli, Polimeri di sintesi per la conservazione della pietra, Il Prato, Padova 2002

• G. Caneva, M.P. Nugari, O. Salvatori (a cura di), La biologia vegetale per i Beni Culturali, vol.I, Nardidi editore, Firenze 2005

• F.Frezzato (a cura di), Cennino Cennini - Il libro dell'arte, Neri Pozza 2009

• Corrado Maltese (a cura di), Materiali per la pittura. Preparazione e finitura delle opere pittoriche. Materiali e metodi. Preparazione e imprimiture, leganti, vernici, cornici, Mursia, Milano 1993

• Daphne De Luca, I manufatti dipinti su supporto tessile. Vademecum per allievi restauratori, Il Prato 2015

• AA. VV, Painted Wood: History and conservation, Getty Conservation Institute, 1994

• Giuseppina Perusini, Il restauro dei dipinti e delle sculture lignee. Storia, teorie e tecniche, Del Bianco editore, 2004

• Corrado Maltese, Le tecniche artistiche, Ed. Mursia 1973-1987 (da approfondire i seguenti argomenti: Disegni, Le prime manifestazioni grafiche. Il disegno su pergamena e su carta, Il pastello, Incisione e Stampa, Caratteri generali, La Xilografia e la Linografia, L’incisione su rame, L’incisione diretta e l’incisione indiretta della lastra metallica, la Litografia)

• Lorenzo Baldacchini, Il libro antico, 2 ed. Carocci, Roma 2001 (cenni sulla storia del libro e della stampa)

• Enrico Pedemonte (a cura di), La carta. Storia, produzione, degrado e restauro, Marsilio 2008 (capitoli relativi alla storia e alla fabbricazione della carta)

• Carla Casetti Brach (a cura di), Gli itinerari della carta. Dall’oriente all’occidente: produzione e conservazione, Gangemi Editore, Roma 2010

• S. Berselli, L. Gasparini, L'archivio fotografico. Manuale per la conservazione e la gestione della fotografia antica e moderna, Zanichelli 2000 (con particolare riferimento ai capitoli 3,4,5,6,7,9,10)

• Biblioteca Riccardiana: http://www.riccardiana.firenze.sbn.it/legature/glossario.htm

• Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia – CSBA – Fondi Antichi, guida alla catalogazione:legature(glossario): http://www.fondiantichi.unimo.it/fa/guida2/legature.html