Sara Penco:

Restorer and creator of the Smarticon method, which was granted a patent as a ‘Method for the classification, cataloguing and tracking of valuable assets, particularly works from the art world’. In 2005, an embryo of the project was at the disposal of the National Forces. She has contributed to the preservation of prestigious works and reported several unpublished works to the academic world, which have been the subject of further studies, exhibitions and publications. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences on both the discovery of unpublished works and innovative technologies for Cultural Heritage.

With Preface By

Yvonne Dohna Schlobitten: 

Lecturer in the Faculty of Church History and Cultural Heritage at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome since 2009. Member of the Editorial Board of the monthly insert ‘Women Church World’ of the ‘Osservatore Romano’. Member of the Raphael Academy in Urbino, she was on the scientific committee of the events and exhibitions celebrating the 500th anniversary of his death in 2020. Her research focuses on the analogy between artistic form and spiritual discernment, starting from the reading of sources and the aesthetic elaboration of inner and outer images in writings on spirituality and philosophy and in the works of modern and contemporary theologians.

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Asia Graziano:

Art Historian. After graduating in Cultural Heritage from the University of Perugia with a thesis on modern sculpture, A recent proposal for Donatello as sculptor in wood: the Saint Peter Martyr of Fabriano, she continued her studies by specializing in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna. She has collaborated as a cultural mediator and operator in museums, libraries and cultural institutions. Curator of the Illustrators Exhibition for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2019. She curated and wrote “Artemisia Eccentrica”, Scripta Maneant editions.