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Structural treatments on double-sided paintings Within the international funding initiative ‘Conserving Canvas’ promoted by the Getty Foundation and focused on projects concerning the conservation of paintings on canvas - structural treatments on textile supports, the Centre has developed a structured training project to allow the exchange of ideas and the transfer of skills between professionals: We are therefore very ... Read more

Linee di Energia - Production, conservation and transmission of 20th-century Italian art In the context of Artissima, in contact with the living body of contemporary production and its protagonists, the meeting, which constitutes the 2020 edition of ‘Linee di Energia’, as well as being aimed at presenting the three volumes that collect the interventions of past events, will encourage guests to ... Read more

The Holy Sepulchre: new studies and restorations In October last year, the Centre signed an agreement in Jerusalem with the Custody of the Holy Land, in collaboration with the Department of Antiquity Sciences of La Sapienza University in Rome, to start the second phase of restoration of the foundations of the Aedicule and the floor of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. This ... Read more

Honorary Degree to Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, Restorer We are pleased to announce the ceremony for the award of the Honorary Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage to the internationally renowned restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, former director of the Restoration Laboratories of the Center. The ceremony will be held on Friday 27 September 2019 at 3 p.m., in the Aula Magna ... Read more

At the end of June, thanks to the collaboration with the IBAM-CNR and INFN of Catania who will make their XRF mapping equipment available, our technicians of the Scientific Laboratories will continue the ongoing diagnostic campaign on the "Woman in Yellow" by Amedeo Modigliani of the Cerruti Collection. Based on ... Read more

MAIN10ANCE "The Sacred Mountains: common heritage of values, laboratory for sustainable conservation and better tourist usability of cultural heritage" Monday, May 27, 2019 at the headquarters of Confartigianato in Novara took place the first operational meeting of the working group of the project "Main10ance" "I Sacri Monti: common heritage of values, laboratory for the ... Read more

Energy lines – the 1980s. Following the art conferences of the 1960s and 1970s, which took place in 2017 and 2018, the third edition of Linee di energia will be dedicated to the art of the 1980s. According to the formula already tested, the conference aims to compare artists, historians and critics ... Read more