Workshop description
The course aims to address the operational issues involved in the correct recovery, provision of ‘first aid’, moving, handling, safeguarding and temporary storage of works of art on polychrome wooden supports (paintings and polychrome wooden sculptures), paintings on canvas and textile artefacts in the wake of emergency events. The course includes both exercises and demonstrations.
During a visit to the Santo Chiodo storage facility in Spoleto (where some 6,000 works of art damaged in the 2016 earthquake in central Italy are stored), we will be exploring case studies of works of art rescued and brought to safety from 2017 to the present day in the course of Opificio delle Pietre Dure projects backed by the Fondazione CR Firenze.
Target audience
The course is designed for specialists and professionals in the field (restorers, restoration technicians, art historians, architects, scientists, registrars, museum curators and cultural heritage professionals) and for anyone wishing to update their skills and knowledge in the context of cultural heritage restoration and conservation.
Programme
1st module – theory (6 hours)
Oriana Sartiani – OPD (Ministry of Cultural Affairs)
Emergency scenarios and intervention techniques: initial intervention on site, handling, preservation and storage
Andrea Santacesaria – OPD (Ministry of Cultural Affairs)
The Opificio’s experiences in the recovery, preservation and storing of wooden artefacts
Guia Rossignoli – OPD (Ministry of Cultural Affairs)
Textiles in an emergency: certain case histories of damage and initial intervention
2nd module – practice (3 hours)
Oriana Sartiani – OPD (Ministry of Cultural Affairs) e Andrea Santacesaria – OPD (Ministry of Cultural Affairs) Guided tour of the Santo Chiodo storage facility, Spoleto (PG)
Enrolment deadline: 10 May 2025
The course can be purchased in its entirety (256 euro) or choosing only the theoretical module, available physically and on line (125 euro)
The course will be held if and when the minimum number of participants is reached
An attendance certificate will be issued
