Salvatore Lorusso

Not to be confused with Salvatore Lo Russo.
Salvatore Lorusso
Years active1978 – present
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Bari
Academic work
DisciplineEnvironmental Chemistry and Cultural Heritage
InstitutionsDepartment of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna
Institute of Cultural Heritage of Zhejiang

Salvatore Lorusso (fl. 1970s–2020s) is a former professor of Environmental Chemistry and Cultural Heritage in the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna,[1][2] and founder of the journal, Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage.[2] He has also been named a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and an Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Zhejiang University in China.[1][2] In the mid-2010s, Lorusso oversaw the restoration of Buddhist sculptures from the Qingzhou Longxing Temple in Zhejiang. Lorusso has also written on the Shroud of Turin, and several articles on Leonardo da Vinci, particularly on the Mona Lisa, and examining evidence of the Isleworth Mona Lisa also being by Leonardo.

  1. ^ a b "Un docente Unibo tra i 55.000 "Who's Who" al mondo". magazine.unibo.it. 9 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Lorusso, Salvatore; Natali, Andrea (December 30, 2015). "Mona Lisa: A Comparative Evaluation of the Different Versions and Their Copies". Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage. 15 (1): 57–109. doi:10.6092/issn.1973-9494/6168 – via conservation-science.unibo.it.