restoration

November 20, 2016
Drones Document the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval Treasures of Volterra Inhabited for nearly 3,000 years, Volterra’s history is most strongly tied to Etruscan and Roman settlements.

November 4, 2016
Vasari’s ‘Last Supper’ Unveiled at Last in Florence Following years of restoration, Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper (1546) was unveiled to the public today, 4 November, in the old cenacolo of Santa Croce in Florence.

Vasari’s ‘Last Supper’ Unveiled at Last in Florence Following years of restoration, Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper (1546) was unveiled to the public today, 4 November, in the old cenacolo of Santa Croce in Florence.

October 22, 2016
Italian Baroque architect Carlo Lurago (Luraghi) died on 22 October 1684 in Passau (a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany).

April 14, 2016
Neoclassical architect and designer Giuseppe Valadier was born on this day, April 14, in 1762.

November 11, 2014
Conserving Tullio Lombardo’s Adam: Time-Lapse | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

September 26, 2014
On 26 September 1997, a series of earthquakes shook central Italy and caused part of the Basilica of Saint Francis at Assisi to collapse.

April 26, 2014
The cleaning of Bernini’s colonnade at Piazza St. Pietro was completed in time for Easter celebrations after almost five and a half years of work and about 14 million euros to pay for it.

April 5, 2014
Bulgari has offered €1.5m to restore the Spanish Steps in Rome in response to the Italian government’s appeal for help.

March 28, 2014
medievalistsnet : Kickstarter campaign to restore St. Francis of Assisi’s home in Rome The Franciscan order hopes to raise $125 000 to restore a convent in Rome which was the home of St. Francis of Assisi.

January 16, 2014
Randy Kennedy reports in the New York Times that the Prada company , in honor of its new store in Florence, will provide financial assistance for the cleaning of Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper , which was severely damaged in 1966.