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San Giorgio alla Costa church restored, rare example of baroque in Florence

A three-year restoration project involving the decorative apparatus of the Church of San Giorgio e Spirito Santo alla Costa in Florence has been completed. The building is a rare example of Baroque art in the Tuscan capital; it was built before the y...
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Florence, Piazzale Michelangelo's David restoration-show will be completed by the end of the year

The restoration of the David in Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence continues, and the completion of the major work of upgrading and cleaning the sculptural group, designed and directed by the City of Florence and carried out by Cooperativa Archeologia...
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How do you restore a photograph? The Royal Palace of Caserta reveals it with the open restoration of a Mapplethorpe shot

The Royal Palace of Caserta reveals to the public techniques and details of one of the lesser-known specializations in the field of restoration: the restoration of photographic assets. On Saturday, Nov. 13 and Sunday, Nov. 14, it will be possible to ...
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Project Strappi kicks off at Palazzo Grassi, open restoration site of 18th-century wall paintings

From October 27, 2021 Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana presents Strappi, a restoration site project open to the public of two large-scale wall paintings by Carlo Innocenzo Carloni (Scaria d'Intelvi, 1687 - Scaria d'Intelvi, 1775) that decorated th...
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Cornaro Chapel with the Ecstasy of St. Theresa restored for the first time in its entirety

The complete restoration of one of the most beautiful chapels in art history, the Cornaro Chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome, has been completed. The chapel houses Gian Lorenzo Bernini'sEcstasy of St. Teresa of Avila, a Baroqu...
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Arles, thousands of fragments pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle: frescoes from the House of the Harpist return to light

Between 2014 and 2017, thousands of fragments of frescoes, a total of eight hundred cases, that decorated the walls were discovered in the Maison de la Harpiste at the site of La Verrerie in Arles. The site of La Verrerie, located on the right bank o...
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The Italians who restored the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

If today we can see the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem lifted from decay, neglect and the ravages of time, it is thanks to an Italian company that has recovered this monument, one of the most important and most symbolic in all of C...
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Culture yards: 57.4 million euros for 16 new projects across Italy

57.4 million euros will be allocated for restoration, adaptation, expansion and enhancement of sixteen new projects throughout the country. "Sixteen interventions," said Minister Franceschini, "extending from northern to southern Italy and involving ...
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