After training in the early 1960s, Ciro Castelli began his collaboration with the Superintendence of Florence for the first interventions on the artworks of the Uffizi following the flood of 1966.
Chief technical restorer at the laboratory of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Ciro Castelli’s journey includes an extraordinary series of restorations of major artists, such as Beccafumi, Botticelli, Cimabue, Giotto, Lippi, Masaccio, Raphael, da Vinci, Caravaggio, Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Mantegna and Vasari. His consultations have authoritative weight with museums, institutions, and galleries both in Italy and abroad. Since 2010, he has been training conservators as part of an initiative funded by the Getty Foundation for the Training and Treatment project.
He publishes scientific texts, advanced works and research as well as numerous texts for catalogs.