Villa San Michele houses a large collection of antique items of marble, mainly statues and architectural decorations. Most works of art are placed in open air environments such as the sculpture gallery, the atrium and the garden. A didactic conservation project aiming at the preservation of the objects was planned in 1997. The project, which […]
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Bees wax was used as a binding medium for paint in Antiquity, and so was a product named Punic wax. The present project in 1996-1997, refers to a series of tests aiming at reconstructing Punic wax. Some series of experiments to reconstruct Punic wax were made as part of my research on encaustic as paint
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”Made for Collections”, in La collezione di antichità di Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari, Roma, 93-110. Eds: M. Barbanera and A. Freccero. Roma 2008. ISBN 978-88-8265-485-6. Four statues, partially of the Roman period and partially later reconstrucions, are discussed. One was re-worked into a figure in the round, one has minor completions, and two are
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”Changing Ideals in Conservation”, in La collezione di antichità di Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari, Roma, 135-144. Editors M. Barbanera and A. Freccero. Roma 2008. ISBN Conservation principles and how these ideals change with time, is discussed in the article.
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Editors: Marcello Barbanera and Agneta Freccero. Roma 2008. ISBN 978-88-8265-485-6. Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari houses a large collection of statues, reliefs and other works of art made of marble. Most items are of the Roman period, often with reconstruction or infillings where pieces were missing, mostly datable to the Baroque period. The first section
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”Pompeian Plasters”, in, Quaderni di studi Pompeiani 1/2007, 115-126. ISSN 1972-3148
”Recreating the Antique. Four statues at the West Wall”, in Art, Conservation, Science, 65-87. Rome 2005. The present article is the preliminary history of four statues, and how these were reconstructed to suit Baroque ideals and prevailing ideas of the Antique. The history is based on observations of stratigrapic layers of conservation materials, studies
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Art, Conservation, Science. The Collection of Antiquities at the Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari, Rome. The West Wall of the Courtyard – Work in Progress. Edited by Marcello Barbanera and Agneta Freccero. Rome 2005. ISSN 1825-7725. The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and seminars 3:1. available on-line: www.isvroma.it (publications) The courtyard at Palazzo Lancellotti was at
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Insula I 9 and Forum Rome 2005. ISSN 1824-7725. The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and Seminars 5:1. available on-line: www.isvroma.it (publications) Investigation on Pompeian wall painting and the materials of which these were made. The project, funded by The Swedish Research Councel (Vetenskapsrådet) was made in collaboration with the Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei,
”Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari Rome. A Research and Conservation Project”, in La gestione del patrimonio culturale. Atti VIII colloquio internazionale, Corigliano Calabro 4/8 dicembre 2003, 134-141. Roma 2004.
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