The Seats
The restoration courses are held in the properly equipped laboratories located in the Florentine historical building of Palazzo Ridolfi. Many restoration site are activated in various monuments and churches of the Florentine surrounding territory. The internships are usually organised in restoration institutions and firms, but sometimes they could be directly activated in the Institute premises. The skills reached after the first biennial course could be used and practised by the students, during the specialization year or during the Masters, in various restoration sites and in various internships organised in many foreign and Italian agreed institutions. The Institute has at its disposal: a research and documentation centre, a cataloguing centre, specialized libraries, multimedia theory halls, an information technology room, a Web Office, an Internet Point, an exhibition hall.

Mean Seat:
Via Maggio 13 – 50125 Florence (Italy)
Tel. +39 055 213086 – 282951
Fax +39 055 217963
info@spinelli.it - www.spinelli.it

Francesco Amodei, Founder and President
Franco Sottani, Honorary President

The Staff
Ester Calabrò, Director of the Institute
Marco Bianchini, Evaluator of learning processes
Carla Bonini, Administrative Director
Silvia Turchi, Didactic Office
Elisa Grazzini, Services to the students and relationships with Regione Toscana
Giuliana Menghetti, Restoration Office
Santino Pascuzzi, Responsible for Mediterranean Area Projects
Angelo Pieroni, Data Center Responsible
Francesco Luglio, Web Marketing & Communication

International Partnerships Network
Thanks to its international activity and thanks to the participation in many projects financed by the European Commission (Cultura2000, Eumedis, Euromed Heritage, Formites, Incomed, Info2000, Interreg, Leonardo, Life, Minerva, Raphael, Scientific Framework ...), the Institute has developed a vast network of relationships, collaborations and partnerships with more than 300 institutions in more than 100 Countries in the world.

Membership
The Institute is member of:
SEMA, Société d’Encouragement aux Métiers d’Art, France
ELIA, European League of Institutes of the Arts, Netherlands
ICFAD, International Council Fine Arts Deans, USA
FME, Fondation au Mérite Européen, Luxembourg
FAI, Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Italy
ALF, Fondazione Anna Lindh, Egypt

Brief History of the Institute
All was born in September 1976...(.......)

2008: 30th Anniversary of Palazzo Spinelli
It was an important birthday for Italian private education system...(.......)

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