Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia and Bargello Museums launch a new restoration project. Inside the Bargello National Museum ’s Michelangelo Hall, operations have already begun to unmount the base of Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus, the first step in a larger conservation project dedicated to the work. Starting in May, the restoration will be visible to the public thanks to an open construction site, which will allow people to observe the work in progress.
The marble plinth, made starting in 1549 on commission by Cosimo I de’ Medici to accompany the famous bronze destined for the Loggia dei Lanzi, is now preserved at the Bargello in the same room that houses fundamental works of 16th-century Florence, including those by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammannati and Baccio Bandinelli. The plinth is a masterpiece of great refinement, conceived as a kind of sculpted altar, richly ornamented and loaded with symbolic meanings.
The new intervention, launched nearly 30 years after the last restoration, will be accompanied by a “live” construction site set up in the museum’s ground floor exhibition hall. Accessible to visitors starting in May, this space will offer the opportunity to follow the different phases of the operation up close, allowing visitors to learn more about the techniques, materials and methodologies proper to conservation restoration.
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| Florence, Bargello Museum will restore basement of Cellini's Perseus with a live construction site |
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