Emanuela Daffra is the new superintendent of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure

TheOpificio delle Pietre Dure has a new superintendent: she is Emanuela Daffra, who will replace Marco Ciatti, whose term ended due to retirement. Daffra was appointed on an interim basis for one year starting Sept. 1. Prior to taking office in Florence, she was director of the Lombardy Regional Museums Directorate since 2019.

An esteemed art historian and executive at the Ministry of Culture, where she has worked since 1990, Emanuela Daffra was, among other things, deputy director of the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan from 2009 to 2016, and later director of the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo.

Emanuela Daffra is not a new face at the Opificio: here, in fact, she worked for a brief period in 2018 as director of the Polychrome Wooden Sculpture, Textiles and Tapestries Restoration Sectors, “winning,” the Opificio announced in a note, “the esteem and sympathy of her colleagues and all the staff, who therefore welcomed her warmly, in the certainty that she will be able to do an excellent job.”

Emanuela Daffra is the new superintendent of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure

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