Dianne Modestini

Dianne Dwyer Modestini is an internationally renowned conservator of old master and nineteenth-century paintings. Ms. Modestini received a B.A. in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 1968. After graduation, she spent a year in Florence where she studied drawing at the Academia di Belle Arti and Italian. In later years, she was to return often to this beloved city where, in 1996, she began and directed the restoration program at the Villa La Pietra. She is on the board of the Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence.