The Cantieri dei Carracci

The conference The Cantieri dei Carracci This is the first public meeting organised by the Research Project Steering Committee. “Carracci ConservArt: visualize and understand the Carracci Gallery through its critical fortune, its conservation and its restorations. XVII-XXI centuries“.

The Carracci Gallery of Palazzo Farnese It was built between 1597 and 1608 by the brothers. Hannibal and Agostino Carracci, exponents of the new sixteenth-century classicism: a magnificent vault of 20 meters frescoed with mythological subjects from the Metamorphosis Ovid 's. The frescoes, between optical and perspective games, overlap sculpture, painting and architecture, in a triumph of light, shapes and colors that for over four hundred years have amazed and fascinated observers.

Launched in 2022, in collaboration with several institutions, the project Carracci ConservArt intends to analyze and publish the unpublished data of the restoration of the Carracci Gallery at Palazzo Farnese, which took place in 2015, combining the technical and scientific results with the historical-critical research carried out on the work, and completed by the study of the graffiti found in the Gallery discovered during the restoration.

Michela Cardinali, Director of the Restoration Laboratories and the SAF Scuola di Alta Formazione of the JRC, as scientific advisor to the project, will speak on the theme of gilding of wall paintings, in collaboration with the scholar Romain Thomas, with the research atelier, closed to the public, to be held on 8 November at the Academy of France – Villa Medici with the aim of bringing together all the members and research groups participating in the project. Carracci ConservArt.

This meeting will be followed on 9 November by a study day open to the public at the École française de Rome. The day dedicated to the Cantieri dei Carracci will be an opportunity to present studies and research devoted to the issue of the Carracci's executive technique, in large construction sites outside Rome.