Thursday, November 8, 2012 hours 10:15
For the history of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence

For the history of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence - La "Restaurazione generale del Tempio" 1815-1824, presentation of the book
Thursday November 8 2012, from 10:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - Talking Corner

The book highlights the various problems relating to the conservation of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence and its collection of artworks arising out in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through a rich previously unpublished documents the book illustrates the steps of the "general restoration of the temple" , built and programmed by the Opera of the church after the fall of Napoleon and the return of Ferdinand III of Lorraine on the throne of Tuscany, with the declared intention of stressing the symbolic and material 'rebirth' of the building and its distinguished decoration, after the French period. It finally shows the complex stratification in the centuries on the walls and in the chapels, of monuments and memories that if on the one side were the major attraction for visitors of the nineteenth century, from the other side contributed to erase the remnants of the ancient gothic decorations.

Attending Roberta Roani, Lecturer of Theory an History of Restoration at the University of Florence and author of the book

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