Only through knowledge is it possible to define the real needs of a good, take care of it and transmit it to the future.
The Villa Carlotta Museum and Botanical Garden together with the ‘La Venaria Reale’ Conservation and Restoration Centre have defined a collaborative project aimed at drawing up a preventive conservation plan for the Museum and Park of the Como Villa.
The project starts from the need to rationalize and enhance existing studies and risk analysis, updating them according to a structured and interdisciplinary protocol that involves considering and cross-referencing:
- Methods for analysing the environment and environmental, hydrogeological and seismic risks for the park and villa located on the western shore of Lake Como
- Methods of analyzing the risks and the state of conservation of the buildings in the park and the architectural structure of the villa
- Methods for analysing the risks and the state of conservation of the art collections, furnishings and decorated surfaces in the museum
The methods of analysis will be applied to several pilot cases that will allow to draw methodological lines, conservative priorities and preventive and maintenance activities to be scaled over the years to plan and improve the management of resources with a view to a sustainable transmission to the future of the Goods.
One of the focus of the project will be a workshop on Bertel Thorvaldsen’s important frieze depicting theEntry of Alexander the Great into Babylon (1818-1828), a masterpiece of nineteenth-century European sculpture, an early stucco version of which had been made for the Quirinale Palace in Rome.
CONCLUSION EVENT OF THE PROJECT
⁇ 24 November 2022 – 10.30 a.m.
Museum and Botanical Garden of Villa Carlotta, Loc. Tremezzo, Italy
Reservations: segreteriadirezione@villacarlotta.it
Duration
January 2020 to March 2022
Lead Partner
Museum and Botanical Garden of Villa Carlotta
Project manager for the JRC
Stefania De Blasi
With the support of
the Cariplo Foundation under the Safe Goods Programme
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Transmitting to the future
Safe Goods Programme
The dissemination of the preventive strategy in the care and management of Villa Carlotta is aimed at involving the whole community, encouraging the strengthening of the sense of local identity and transforming the public into a more interested user and with greater responsibility towards the common heritage.
Institutions, professionals and citizens have been invited to share this path since its inception, starting from the press conference presenting the project that took place on 15 July 2020.
You can read here the press review
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Knowing to conserve
Preventive and Scheduled Conservation
Preventive and Scheduled Conservation requires a long-term strategic vision, oriented to the prevention and constant care of the artistic, cultural and landscape heritage and is an articulated process of production of new knowledge and stratification of information.
This phase of the project involves an in-depth diagnostic activity, which is essential to carry out a risk mapping that restores the interconnection between garden, building and art collections, encouraging a more aware approach to conservation activity.
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The Knowledge Site
First phase
Irene Malizia is responsible for the cognitive restoration work carried out by the Centre in the rooms of the Museum and Botanical Garden of Villa Carlotta, as part of the ‘Transmit to the Future’ project.
It is Irene who, today, takes us to the Sala dei Marmi where, together with her colleague, Francesca Frassati, she is engaged in some fundamental operations and analyses, useful for planning subsequent activities.
Specifically, he is taking care of the collection of salts and efflorescence present in the basement of the room.
On the trabatello, on the other hand, Francesca is analysing, also thanks to the use of an endoscope, the grappas of Bertel Thorvaldsen’s frieze to verify their stability.
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Video Interview
Sara Abram – Maria Angela Previtera
The Centre’s and Villa Carlotta’s commitment to the ‘Transmit to the Future’ project continues, with the support of Fondazione Cariplo and the high-level supervision of the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Como, Lecco, Monza Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio and Varese. Waiting to get to the heart of the planned activity, with the start-up of the knowledge and study sites at Villa Carlotta, we present the project with a short double interview of the directors of our bodies, Maria Angela Previtera, director of Villa Carlotta, and Sara Abram, secretary general of the La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Center.
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Video Interview
Lorenzo Appolonia – Stefano Della Torre
What is the importance of preventive conservation in relation to complex systems such as historic dwellings in parks and botanical gardens and what is the innovative scope of the ‘Transmit to the Future’ project, born from the synergy between the Centre and Villa Carlotta? In a double interview, two of the main masters of the discipline in Italy, promoters of fundamental national projects on the preventive and planned conservation of cultural heritage, talk about it: Stefano Della Torre, full professor at the Politecnico di Milano, President of the Italian Society for the Restoration of Architecture (SIRA) and Lorenzo Appolonia, President of IGIIC, Italian Group of the International Institute for Conservation (IIC), director of the Superintendence of the Autonomous Region of Valle d’Aosta and director of the JRC’s Scientific Laboratories. Their support for our project is very important and we thank them.
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