Florence Classical Arts Academy
Restoration Program
Florence, Italy
Certificate
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English, Russian
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Restoration Program in Florence teaches copying old masters, original techniques and practical restoration through hands-on projects and scientific documentation. The Academy runs a restoration project with Palazzo Pitti and combines theory with practice, testing skills via assignments and supervised conservation studio work. Students complete a three-year program for a diploma or a one-year program for a certificate; curriculum covers materials, archival organization, condition assessment and documentation of cultural heritage.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as conservator-restorers, painting conservators or museum conservation technicians; they'll enter conservation science, curatorial work, research, condition reporting, archival documentation or cultural heritage project management.
The program includes copying paintings of old masters and learning their original techniques while learning to restore art-works. Upon completion of a three-year program, the student graduates with a diploma. Upon completion of one - year program the students receives a certificate.
This program is composed according to the requirement for high professional education. The Academy is currently realizing a restoration project of an antique original painting of large dimension under collaboration with one of the key museums of Florence - Palazzo Pitti. Part of the curriculum of the program includes copying paintings of old masters and learning their original techniques. Upon completion of the Three-Year Course, the student receives the Diploma.
This program is composed according to the requirement for high professional education. The Academy is currently realizing a restoration project of an antique original painting of large dimension under collaboration with one of the key museums of Florence - Palazzo Pitti. Part of the curriculum of the program includes copying paintings of old masters and learning their original techniques. Upon completion of the Three-Year Course, the student receives the Diploma.
Course Goals
The students of the Restoration Department will be preparing for the following career paths:
- Conservative restoration activity
- Scientific research
- Research project activity
- Expertise
Study goals of One-Year Course
- Revealing and imparting attributes to the object of material culture
- Estimating the artistic and cultural value of an art-work, and the category of it
- Organizing and archiving the work to the best quality standard to be published and presented to the public
Learning about the principles of old masters and their individual techniques by using diverse types of materials:
- Unfolding of the course is performed from basic to complex. Students learn the theory and immediately puts it into practice while organizing scientific project research
- Students identify and accentuate course goals through learning different materials
Monitoring the quality of knowledge comprehension:
- Testing and checking theoretical knowledge and methodical set-ups in practical assignments of the restoration of oil paintings
- Step by step controlling methodical performance through following the goals of a restoration process
- Establishing independent assignments as homework for conservative-restoration process practices
- Consulting on scientific documentation
