Friday, November 12, 2010 hours 10:00
Consolidation methods on mural paintings and stone artifacts between tradition and innovation

UIA Università Internazionale dell’Arte di Firenze
Friday November 12- from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Sala Giuseppe Rosi

Speakers: Mauro Matteini, Guido Botticelli

The 'Florentine School ' is very well known in the world, since the last century, for its consolidation methodologies in the field of mural paintings. The chemical researcher Enzo Ferroni and the restorer Dino Dini were the first actors in the use of the innovative technique named “Bario Method” which broke the old tradition of the “natural organic binders” (casein, vegetal rubbers, animal glues) used in the consolidation of the deteriorated frescoes.
The Bario Method suddenly became the Opificio delle Pietre Dure main methodology used in the frescoes interventions of restoration.
The mineral-non organic tradition was developed and changed in the recent years in new innovative techniques as: the nano-calci by Piero Baglioni and Luigi Dei and the Ammonium Ossalate by Mauro Matteini, Arcangelo Moles and Sabino Giovannoni. New techniques as the Ammonium Phosphate, recently launched by Matteini are now checked and tested by Guido Botticelli, Fabio Fratini (ICVBC/CNR), Giacomo Chiari (Getty Conservation Institute).

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