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- Title
I DIPINTI MURALI GIOTTESCHI NELLA SALA CAPITOLARE DEL COMPLESSO DI SANT'ANTONIO A PADOVA: RICOSTRUZIONE DELLA VICENDA CONSERVATIVA.
- Authors
DI GIOVANNI, SERENA
- Abstract
This study was carried out as part of a conservation and restoration project started by the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro on Giotto's wall paintings in the chapter house of the S. Antonio complex in Padua. On this occasion it was necessary to reconstruct the historical background and conservation interventions of the room and its decoration, in order to guide the restoration work carried out in October 2019 amongst the didactic activities provided by the Scuola di Alta Formazione Studio of the ICR. Through the analysis of the sources, the different phases of the nineteenth-century interventions directed by the two brothers, Bernardo Gonzati and Lodovico Gonzati, were detailed. A specific work campaign was assigned to Lodovico after Bernardo's death. The archival sources were supplemented by literary and graphic testimonies such as Cavalcaselle's drawings from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, some of which are unpublished and characterized by interesting annotations on the state of conservation of Giotto's wall paintings. The reconstruction of the history of mural paintings from the early twentieth century to the second postwar period was essentially carried out thanks to the photographs kept at the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione in Rome, the Federico Zeri photographic library at the Bologna University and the photographic archive of the Musei Civici agli Eremitani in Padua. The cross-analysis of photographic, literary and archival sources led us to hypothesize some important restoration work between the 1920s and 1950s. Finally, for the 2000s, the diagnostic tests carried out on the mural paintings under the direction of Anna Maria Spiazzi were analyzed through the documentation kept in the Archives of the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l'area metropolitana di Venezia e le province di Belluno, Padova e Treviso.
- Subjects
PADUA (Italy); ARCHIVAL resources; MURAL art; PHOTOGRAPHY archives; HOUSE painting; LITERARY sources; CONSERVATION &; restoration
- Publication
Santo: Rivista Francescana di Storia Dottrina Arte, 2021, Vol 61, Issue 3, p355
- ISSN
0391-7819
- Publication type
Article