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CIL XI 137. Considerations for the conservation and valorisation of epigraphic material in Ravenna
No full textThe study of the sarcophagus of C.Iulius Mygdonius, bearing the inscription CIL XI 137, evidences the urgency of proceeding promptly towards a complete cataloguing of the stone material in
Ravenna, with and without inscriptions. This operation is recommended not only for evident scientific objectives, but also for the conservation and valorisation of the findings, otherwise very often not accessible and badly known. The seat of Ravenna of the University of Bologna has all the resources, technical and scientific, to carry out this project
ARCUS: a new tool for intervention to support cultural heritage
No full textArcus – Society for the development of art, culture and performance has been constituted in 2004, with capital undersigned by the Economy Ministry and whose operative activities depend on the addresses of the Cultural Heritage Ministry and of the Infrastructures and Transports Ministry. Arcus aims to be an original tool for the support of initiatives and important and innovative projects in the Italian cultural panorama. The economic support, if it intervenes, must be seen as totally instrumental in the sphere of a cultural project, that is conceptually valid and operatively shared
The conservation of the printed globes of V. Coronelli between knowledge and restoration
No full textFor the conservation and the possible restoration of an ancient artefact it is always necessary a deep knowledge of the materials with which it was realised and of the ways that the author of the work of art has used them. Three cases are presented here, regarding the globes of Coronelli, showing the utility of this type of study. In the globes, preserved at the Classense Library, the scientific investigations permitted to verify the real correspondence between the work of art and the description of Coronelli for their construction, and to evaluate the conservation conditions. In the globe Enriques, an accurate investigation has led to the discovery that this artefact represents one of the tests, if not the first one, made by the author. In another case, the globe of Faenza, at present under analysis and restoration, a series of tests is proposed for the choice of the more appropriate intervention to
be realised in the future
The facade of the church of Saint Spirit in Urbino: from scientific investigations to restoration
No full textThe state of advanced deterioration of the church of Saint Spirito of Urbino has induced the Superintendence for the Historical Artistic and Demoetnoanthropological Heritage of the Marches-Urbino and the Archiepiscopal Curia to program an intervention of restoration. Before that, the facade was covered from black crusts, grey deposits and yellowish films. The bricks of the wall, until to a height of approximately three meters from the bottom, moreover they were interested from processes of detachment, disintegration and exfoliation. In such area the presence of humidity was rather obvious and was attributable to phenomena of rising dump. In order to identify the constituent materials and to estimate of the state of conservation they have been carry out scientific investigations, whose it turns out have supplied profits indications for the restoration
Historical, analytic-diagnostic and environmental study of the wood ceilings covered in painted paper in “Casa Romei” (Ferrara): Room of the 1500s
No full textThis study aims at the evaluation of the conservation state of painted paper ceilings in the museum of Casa Romei (Ferrara). These ceilings are very important as rare witnesses of the art in Ferrara in 1400 to simulate wooden ceilings through painted paper. The overall project, proposed for the study of both the manufacture techniques and the state of conservation, is divided into two stages relative to the knowledge of the materials and the conservation environment. The study involves the artefacts control (diagnostic, materials and products characterisation through biological and chemical analyses) and microclimate monitoring
A proposito dell’uso dell’inchiostro rosso nei manoscritti Avestici
Get PDFWhile Avestan manuscripts are consistently written with black ink, sometimes they present us with red scripts used for titles or for some special signs of interpunction; however, it seems that in certain circumstances, bilingual manuscripts (see for instance J9) distinguished the sacred language (i.e. the Avestan text) by writing its version with a red ink. To the contrary, the extant manuscripts do not attest any consistent use of real rubricae in order to mark the beginning of an Avestan text, as it was done in the standard Geldner’s edition. In any case the documented use of the red ink, although limited in the mss, cannot be the fruit of a later ornamental trend, but it should probably date back - through the Basic Manuscript of the IXth-Xth century A.D. - to the Sasanian Achetype. The present tradition attributing a special function to the red colour results to have been not isolated, but it was paralleled by various traditions: in the Pahlavi Psalter, in the Manichaean documents (where we find texts written in different colours but frequently in red, and with flowers and points like signs of punctuation according to a tradition partly paralleled in the Avestan mss), and more generally in Late Antiquity, for instance, in Byzantium, where such a colour was considered an emanation of the King (sacrum encaustum). An very useful Appendix by Werner Sundermann about the use of red ink in Turfan Texts is appended at the end of this contribution
Il Sacro Palazzo di Costantinopoli Nuova Roma
Get PDFThe building expansion foreseen in the centre of Istanbul, in the area surrounding the Blue Mosque, that is the zone over the Sacred Byzantine Palace, arises the problem of the safeguard of the archaeological heritage lying beneath an area of about thousands of square metres. An amazing patrimony, both the Palace of the age of Comneni and the Sacred Palace, more ancient and monumental, whose remains are still visible towards the walls and whose powerful undergrounds recall the monumentality of the structures build in various times in the Byzantine era. But the Sacred Palace is now perceivable through the rare remaining iconographic monuments and, mainly, through its ideological meaning, described in this work
Note sul rapporto tra ferrovie e conservazione dei beni culturali ed architettonici
Get PDFThe railways, like all other types of linear transport infrastructures (highways, motorways, waterways, pipelines, power lines, etc., and even sheep tracks in our not to distant past) cross the country and interact with the environment. More often than not, this interaction due to transport modalities has a “negative” connotation because of the impact on the environment of the infrastructure as such and associated effects due to: noise and vibrations, atmospheric pollution, emission of greenhouse gases, accidents, and traffic congestion. If we analyse the effects of the various transport modalities in terms of their comparative external costs (the social and economic costs of the environmental impact), we can see that, from a quantitative point of view, the railways are the most ecologically compatible modality. This kind of analysis should be improved by taking into consideration other effects such as those due to land use, fragmentation of landscape, and effects on the cultural and architectural heritage. To illustrate this approach, the birth and early period of railways in the city of Roma and in the Roman Campagna, and the evolution of the great station of Roma Termini, are briefly reviewed and discussed. In this way, important elements are evidenced; inter alia: the continuing interaction in such a historically ancient urban and suburban settlement due to transport infrastructures (from ancient Roman roads and aqueducts to modern motorways and railways); the large variety of architectural and archaeological structures (including the artistic and landscaping aspects) affected by the interaction; the frequent occurrence of architectonic objects marking the urban landscape in a such a way that the site appears peculiarly recognizable (for instance, the Servian Walls Aggere for the central station of Roma Termini). Finally, the archaeological sites discovered during the construction works of new High Speed Train (TAV) lines are briefly considered especially as far as the recognition, study, protection, and fruition of these sites are concerned. This excursus suggests that railways can support the experimentation and introduction of innovative technologies with the aim of further increasing their ecological and cultural compatibility and enhancing their contribution to environmental and social sustainability