Obtaining a diploma at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure’s school with a specialisation in the restoration of paintings on canvas and wood in 1982, Oriana graduated in 2007 in Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Università della Tuscia. She has been a resident restorer since 1984, first at the SABAP in Arezzo and then, since 1996, at the OPD in Florence. She is a lecturer in the technology of constituent materials, the history of artistic techniques, and the technical disciplines of restoration at the SAFS-OPD.
Since 2016, she has been the Technical Director of the Santo Chiodo laboratory for safeguarding works of art following the earthquake, in Spoleto, Umbria. A cultural blue helmet since 2016 – Unite4Heritage, 1st course at the Scuola Santa Anna in Pisa and Carabinieri Paracadutisti “Tuscania”. Since 2023 she has been the Technical Director of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure’s Movable Paintings on Canvas and Wood Sector. She has restored work by, among others, Mantegna, Caravaggio, Bronzino, Sebastiano del Piombo, Donatello, Burri, Kiefer, Van Dyck, Rubens, Raphael and Domenico Veneziano. She is in charge of the restoration of the Italian Memorial in Auschwitz. She is Deputy Director of the Master’s course in the Conservation and Management of Contemporary Artworks at the OPD-FOP (2019-2021). She has produced numerous publications on restoration.
She is a member of the working group on Guidelines for the identification, adaptation, planning and organisation of storage facilities for the temporary housing of moveable cultural assets with restoration laboratories attached, DG-SP Culturale, MiC SG 17/03/2022 Circular no. 14. She has held numerous conferences and meetings at prestigious cultural institutions both in Italy and abroad.