UNA PALA IN TERRACOTTA INVETRIATA DI PRODUZIONE ROBBIANA: METODI INTEGRATI DI INDAGINE E RESTAURO

The subject of this article, a glazed terracotta relief attributed to Andrea della Robbia and preserved in the Museum of Montalcino, has been studied with new procedures used for the first time to yield an understanding of its material composition. The same approach will be adopted in interventions...

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Published in:OPD restauro : quaderni dell'Opificio delle pietre dure e laboratori di restauro di Firenze 1997-01 (9), p.73-67
Main Authors: Agosti, Giovanna, Andreoni, Andreina, Fabbri, Bruno, Kumar, Francesca, Lanterna, Giancarlo, Mingazzini, Claudio, Moioli, Pietro, Moradei, Rosanna, Seccaroni, Claudio, Vaccari, Maria Grazia
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Language:Italian
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Summary:The subject of this article, a glazed terracotta relief attributed to Andrea della Robbia and preserved in the Museum of Montalcino, has been studied with new procedures used for the first time to yield an understanding of its material composition. The same approach will be adopted in interventions on other objects produced by the Della Robbia workshop, so that a comparative study can be made with the help of a data bank. The article also gives an account of the phases of the restoration, which consisted in the first instance of a structural repair: the damage caused by moving the relief from its original location was repaired, and the various elements of the composition reassembled one by one. This was a fairly complex operation, given the dimensions ofthe relief. Finally various lacunae were reintegrated, both sculpturally and pictorially, in those parts of the relief which consist of mechanically repeated decoration, so that no arbitrary new elements were introduced.
ISSN:1120-2513
2239-723X