Il maestro ZT in Puglia

Antonia Magistro lives in Spinazzola, where she was born in 1966. Specializing in the restoration of paintings on canvas and panel, she conducts research on the local history of Spinazzola, in the footsteps of Antonio Carrabba. You have restored works from different eras, from the 16th to the 20th century. Worthy of note is a prompt intervention on the Madonna of Constantinople, painted on a panel by the monogrammarist Z.T. preserved in the Pinacoteca of Spinazzola. You oversaw the restoration of the Crucifixion (16th century) by the same author, a panel preserved in the Episcopio of Gravina in Puglia.
Without excluding interventions for various agencies, he has collaborated for a long time with the Pirro Artistic Company of Daniela Pirro in San Marco in Lamis, intervening on various removable and immovable artefacts preserved in the churches of San Sebastiano and San Nicola di Spinazzola, as well as on works belonging to the Diocese of Puglia (Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti) and Basilicata (Melfi -Venosa) under the control of the Superintendency of the BB.CC. and the Landscape of the Regions of Puglia and Basilicata. In collaboration with the MUTEC (Barletta Municipal Art Gallery Museum) you intervened in the restoration of a series of paintings by Gisondi, wooden artefacts from the 17th century. and De Nittis. In 2008 you collaborated with the Center for Historical and Socio-Religious Studies in Puglia for the conference on the origins of Spinazzola. In 2011 you organized a film festival in Spinazzola with director Nico Cirasola. In 2018 Magistro published La meraviglia dell’arte barocca a Spinazzola, Edizioni INSIEME, an all-round vision of an aspect of local history in the 17th century.