Chiara Fornaciari da Passano was born in Rome in September 1960 and went to the Julius Caesar High School in Rome. She attended the Graduate Course in Conservation of Archives and Books at the Central Institute for Book Pathology graduating in 1983 and at the same time attended the Faculty of Literature with a focus on Art History at the University of Rome, graduating with a thesis on the engraving of 'translation' from drawing in 1989. Between 1984 and 1995 she collaborated with several museum institutions such as the National Institute for Graphics, the Barracco Museum, the National Gallery of Modern Art, the Archaeological Superintendence of Rome, and the Vatican Museums. In 1995 she became part of the Vatican Museums staff while working in the Restoration Lab on the Museums’ paper collection. Since 2008 she has been coordinating the Laboratory that deals with the preservation and restoration of works on paper for the different departments of the Vatican Museums. She has spoken at various conferences and exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. She is part of, along with colleagues from other institutions, a team that deals with the study and dissemination of the use of Korean Hanji paper in Italy. She has taught courses about the restoration of works on paper taken the University of Tor Vergata as part of the qualifying degree of conservation and restoration of Cultural Heritage. During the many years of activity, first as a freelancer and then under the management of the Vatican Museums, she restored XXIX and XX century works such as the watercolors of Chagall, the cartoons for the stained glass of the Vence’s Chapel of Matisse, the cartoons for the tapestries of the seven sacraments of Overbeck, and the corpus of the drawings of C.Fracassini (large and small formats). For the Department of Decorative Arts, she has restored some specimens of the celestial and terrestrial Globes of Greuter and Blaew. She also took care of the restoration and preservation of paper copies of the Catacombe paintings for the Department of Early Christian Art and copies on paper of the frescoes of the Etruscan tombs for the Department of Italic Antiquities, and the casts on paper of the mosaics of the Basilica of St. John in Lateran for the Department of Art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From 2015 to 2019 she was part of the Committee of Site Management for the restoration of Raphael's cartoon for 'the School of Athens' in the Pinacoteca Ambrosian Art Gallery in Milan.