Sara Penco

A restorer and art lover, she has discovered and published previously unknown artworks. She has carried out restoration work for the Vicariate and for the Historical Museum of the General Command of the Carabinieri Corps.

In 1999 she conceived the Smarticon method. In 2005 an early version of the project was used in collaboration with the Carabinieri TPC.

She has participated in national and international conferences focused on art studies and innovative technologies for Cultural Heritage. She has also contributed to advanced training courses at the European University of Rome.

In 2017 the Ministry of Economic Development granted a patent for the Italian Smarticon Method, which has received numerous accolades, letters of commendation, and merit ranking, including recognition for its suitability for cooperation with Asian countries.

Sara Penco is the author of the book “Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo’s Judgment” published by Scripta Maneant. For this study she received thanks from Pope Francis, official patronage from the Dicastery for the Evangelization, and global media coverage.

In 2025, the ReArt Europe initiative takes root: a project aimed at fostering global collective well-being through art, promoting the spread of culture worldwide as a tool for dialogue designed to coltivate a climate of global cohesion and to reinforce Europe’s role as the “cradle of planetary Humanism”. The initiative positions art as a strategic asset of inclusive soft power, serving as a countermeasure to divisive nationalism and a deterrent to coercive ideologies, and hard power.