?Our Art Restoration and Conservation undergraduate students will work directly and exclusively on original materials from the 14th to 19th centuries. These opportunities are provided by religious, state, or even private institutions including the City of Florence, Italy Fine Art Department, and are carried out under the direction of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici.?While at university,?Art Restoration and Conservation Studies Bachelor's degree students have the privilege of working on objects ranging from paintings, frescoes, and wood sculpture from the medieval period through to the 19th century.

Earning a Bachelor?s degree in Art Restoration and Conservation?Studies while attending university?in Florence, Italy is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Florence, Italy is the cradle of Renaissance civilization - the place where Dante, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, and Leonardo da Vinci were inspired to create. Today Florence, Italy remains home to some the greatest works of art the world has ever known. The Marist College Conservation Studies and Art Restoration Bachelor?s degree program gives undergraduate students the opportunity to learn to care for and restore these invaluable pieces of art and history.

An Art Restoration and Conservation bachelor's degree offers great opportunities for travel and work all over the world, in a wide variety of countries and cultures, languages and religions.?For university students, studying?in the Art Conservation and Restoration Department it means exactly that. Through the Art Conservation major, students have traveled to Nepal in collaboration with the University of Kathmandu to work in both Hindu and Buddhist temples. They have also found themselves in India restoring frescoes and paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2007, they traveled to Chile to restore works of art at the Pablo Neruda Museum. While other Marist-LdM study abroad Art Conservation and Restoration students have stayed in Florence restoring paintings and sculptures by some of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance like Donatello and Michelangelo.