Pinin Brambilla Barcilon Archive
Monastery of Torba, Tower of the Nuns, First floor room, Wall paintings
Description Notes, plants, sections and reliefs; phototypes (positive, negative).
consistency
Quantity 1|27|12|15|8
Type package(s)positive on paper up to 21x29 cm.slide(s) up to 6x6 cm.negative on film up to 6x6 cm.sheet(s)loose
Description annotations. positive b/w 18x24 cm. color slides 6x6 cm. Negative on film 6x6 cm Plants 30x110 cm, sections 43x100 cm, reliefs 48x48 cm.
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Photographic documentation relating to the phases before and during the restoration carried out on the wall paintings with Figures of Nuns and Saints, which decorate the room on the first floor of the Tower of the Nuns. Pinin Brambilla Barcilon's first intervention ended in 1983.
It also contains: copy of typewritten text in German regarding the inscriptions on the first floor of the Tower of Torba, bearing the handwritten note "Copia per C. Bertelli".
Facilitated description
The Tower of the Nuns is a room of the Monastery of Torba, in the province of Varese, about 500 AD.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the monastery's frescoes in 1983.
The causes of degradation are the high level of humidity and deterioration due to salt and living organisms.
The restorer removed the dust and made a treatment against harmful organisms.
He cleaned the surfaces and filled the missing parts with grouting (a white layer of plaster and glue that stretches inside a lack and forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions).
Finally, he carried out the pictorial reintegration (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) with watercolors.
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