Friday, November 9, 2012 hours 10:00
Restoring the Restored

Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici, Paesaggistici, Storici ed Etnoantropologici, per le Provincie di Firenze, Pistoia e Prato
Friday 9 November from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. - Sala Tintori

The attention reserved over time to our Heritage (especially in a region like Tuscany) resulted as a consequence of a situation in which today often 'restoration' and 'conservation' means not only to make a properly evaluation of the changes made to the artwork over time, but also the choices made during past restoration carried out in the twentieth century, according to the different methodologies and conceptions of the restoration process, from a theoretical and methodological point of view and especially in the operation on the site.
If we look at both architectural and movable heritage, we see numerous situations in which you will have to carefully consider whether these interventions (sometimes to recovery and reintegrate, sometimes of removal and release) should be regarded as historicized and thus to preserve as refer to the "continuity of artwork life", or not relevant and therefore (at least for the reintegration and reconstruction) to be removed.
Relationships proposed in this study day - in line with the communications presented during the XIX Salone dell’Arte del Restauro di Ferrara - offer some thoughts on the subject and present some significant situations related to the work of the Superintendence for Architectural Art and Ethno-anthropological Heritage, with a view to placing the speakers today in a historical perspective, knowing that in the future, our work could be under the scrutiny of new and different critical readings.

Co-ordinator:
Speakers: Alessandra Marino, Hosea Scelza, Vincenzo Vaccaro, Valerio Tesi, Maria Cristina Masdea, Maria Pia Zaccheddu, Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli, Fulvia Zeuli, Claudio Paolini, Gabriele Nannetti

The list of the speeches:

10:00-10:20 :: Introduction; Alessandra Marino

10:20-11:00 :: “Unveiling the past” or give back the best aspect?: a reflection on the restoration works carried out in the the twentieth century in Tuscany; Alessandra Marino

11:00-11:30 :: Reconstruction and invention of the Middle Ages in the twentieth century in Florence. The palace of the Arte della Lana and Orsanmichele: two emblematic cases; Hosea Scelza

11:30-12:00 :: San Lorenzo in Florence: the restoration of the lantern of the Old Sacristy (1938) and the restoration of the lantern in the New Sacristy; Vincenzo Vaccaro

12:00-12:30 :: Restorations in Pistoia in the late twentieth century: from the interventions of 'scraping' to the conservation of monument: Valerio Tesi

12:30-13:00 :: The ongoing restoration of the frescoes of the chapel of San Francesco at Pescia and the recovery of the twentieth century additions made by the bottega of Amedeo Benino: Maria Cristina Masdea

13.00-14.30 :: Coffee Break

14:30-15:00 :: The trittico di Giovenale by Masaccio: restoration and conservation history from the Sixties to today Maria Pia Zaccheddu

15.30-16.00 The trittico by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini in the church of Collegonzi in Empoli, "racconciature" and twentieth century restoration; Cristina Gnoni

16:00-16:30 :: Torre del Gallo: the restoration site and the recovery of the past interventions by Stefano Bardino; Fulvia Zeuli

16:30-17:00 :: The case of the Crocifisso di Bosco ai Frati attributed to Donatello: the restoration of the fifties and the "removal of the not relevant additions "; Claudio Paolini

17:00-17:30 :: The restoration works at the villa at Poggio a Caiano: reflections on the relationship between 'carte', law and operational practices; Gabriele Nannetti

17:30-18:00 :: Final debate and closing of the works

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