Roberto Belluci graduated as a Master of Art in 1968 and has been a restorer since 1972 at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Laboratori di Restauro di Firenze. He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications on restoration techniques. He specializes in optical technical-scientific diagnoses of artistic techniques. He is an associate of the CNR-INO (National Institute of Optics) and is involved in the integration of historical-artistic and technical studies using date derived from scientific investigations. In this context, he has participated in numerous international study conferences, presenting lectures on the applications of diagnostics to cultural property.
For the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, he has conducted numerous research projects on the artistic techniques of renowned painters such as Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci… He has restored numerous artworks, including Botticelli’s Coronation of the Virgin, Leonardo da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi and Raphael’s Madonna of the Grand Duke.
He was a member of the scientific council of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and remains the technical and scientific referent of the IPERION-CH project.