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DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out.For over twenty years\, World Monuments 
 Fund undertook the remarkable task of restoring the historic Chancellerie 
 d’Orléans. Built in Paris in the early eighteenth century\, the Chanceller
 ie displays a decorative program consisting of paintings\, stucco\, and wo
 od carving by some of the leading artists of the time. In the early twenti
 eth century\, the interior was dismantled and put into storage. These trea
 sures were forgotten for nearly a century\, until World Monuments Fund beg
 an work to reconstruct and restore the spaces. In this presentation\, Worl
 d Monuments Fund president and CEO Bénédicte de Montlaur is joined by the 
 project’s conservator\, Cinzia Pasquali. Together\, they will narrate the 
 history of the Chancellerie and the conservation work that brought this im
 portant example of Rococo interiors back to public view.Bard Graduate Cent
 er is grateful for the generous support of the Selz Foundation.Bénédicte d
 e Montlaur is the president and CEO of World Monuments Fund (WMF)\, leadin
 g its mission to safeguard irreplaceable heritage working with local commu
 nities worldwide. She is responsible for defining and implementing WMF’s s
 trategic vision in more than thirty countries and leading an international
  team of seventy employees\, as well as an additional four hundred cultura
 l conservation professionals around the world. Under her tenure\, WMF has 
 developed the programs Crisis Response Fund and the Climate Heritage Initi
 ative\, has opened offices in France and China\, and has expanded the Inte
 rnational Council of World Monuments Fund\, which currently boasts nine ch
 apters globally.De Montlaur’s background mixes culture and the arts\, poli
 tics\, international diplomacy\, and human rights. Prior to joining WMF\, 
 de Montlaur spent two decades as a senior diplomat with the French Ministr
 y of Foreign Affairs. She served as Cultural Counselor at the French Embas
 sy in the United States\, where she led France’s largest international cul
 tural advocacy network and its two partner foundations—Albertine and FACE—
 directing a team of ninety people in ten US offices. Previously\, she was 
 deputy assistant secretary in charge of North Africa at the French Ministr
 y of Foreign Affairs in Paris\, United Nations Security Council negotiator
  on Africa and the Middle East in New York\, and French Embassy first secr
 etary in Damascus\, Syria.De Montlaur studied sociology and Arabic at the 
 École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and public affairs at Sciences Po\, Paris. 
 She was a Marshall Memorial Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. She has se
 rved on the boards of several cultural and educational institutions and is
  currently a board member of the Maison Francaise at Columbia University. 
 In 2011 she curated an original photographic exhibition entitled Islam and
  the City. Beyond her professional accomplishments\, de Montlaur is a poly
 glot—speaking French\, English\, Arabic\, and Spanish—and completed the Ne
 w York City Marathon in 2011 and 2024.Cinzia Pasquali is a conservator-res
 torer specializing in painting and sculpture\, trained at the Istituto Cen
 trale per il Restauro (ISCR) in Rome and holding a master’s degree in cons
 ervation-restoration from Université Paris III. She has led major restorat
 ion projects in Italy and France\, including the Galerie d’Apollon at the 
 Louvre\, the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles\, and the Grande Singerie at Ch
 antilly. Cinzia led the restoration of the interior decors of the Chancell
 erie d’Orléans.Collaborating with the Centre for Research and Restoration 
 of the Museums of France (C2RMF)\, she has restored key masterpieces by Le
 onardo da Vinci\, Bronzino\, and Piero di Cosimo. Internationally recogniz
 ed for her expertise in painting diagnostics\, she frequently works with m
 useums and contributes to academic conferences and publications. She also 
 helped establish a conservation training program in the Maghreb and Middle
  East through the European TEMPUS project.Object LabsAt BGC\, we use an ob
 ject-centered approach to advance the study of the decorative arts\, desig
 n history\, and material culture. Join our student educators before select
  public events to learn about some of the objects in BGC’s Study Collectio
 n. Each week we will showcase three objects carefully selected from the co
 llection\, which includes over 4\,000 objects in a variety of media.Octobe
 r 22 and 29\; November 5\, 12\, and 19\; December 338 West 86th Street\, 5
 –6 pmFounded in 2011\, the BGC Study Collection supports student research 
 by providing opportunities for hands-on close examination of objects. Lear
 n more about the BGC Study Collection here.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Reconstructing and Restoring an Eighteenth-Ce
 ntury Parisian Landmark
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