Italian Artistic Restoration:Introduction to Paintings on Canvas and on Wood
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In Como (Italy)
This program will take your skills to the next level!
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Course
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Languages
English
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Location
Como (Italy)
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Duration
2 Weeks
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Start date
17/06/2024
Italy has an artistic and historical heritage of outstanding importance, covering a very long period of time, and which has often conditioned the art of other countries. This system of monuments, churches and museums represents a point of reference for anyone involved or interested in the world of art. Valorising and making these assets available requires the intervention of professionals who can boast a training in which the historical and artistic knowledge is balanced with technical and scientific skills as well as high operational skills. Through the two-week summer course that Accademia di Belle Arti 'Aldo Galli' offers, you have the opportunity to learn how to give new life to paintings on canvas and on wood, according to the criteria of contemporary restoration.
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About this course
The course is designed for high school graduates, university students or professionals from other fields, who want to deepen or approach the Italian tradition of restoration of cultural heritage and wish to learn the basic notions and techniques, or experiment with new ones.
Methodology and structure - The course is structured as an experiential workshop and it is characterized by laboratory activities and theoretical insights. Conducted by professional artists in a dedicated environment, the program aims to involve students, with different skills and backgrounds (while respecting the individual specificities), in a perspective of personal evolution of each.
The course includes strongly structured moments, as well as collective reflections, experiences of phenomenological reading of painting, leaving ample room for individual creativity. By the end of the course, under the guidance of our teachers, you will develop a series of drawing and painting works that will be exposed during the final exhibition.
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Subjects
- Art design
- Painting and Decorating
- Drawing Techniques
- Restoration course
- Restoration master
- Drawing master
- Geometric drawing
- Pictorial representation
Course programme
STRUCTURAL RESTORATION
Study of the easel paintings
The first step consists in the in-depth study of the painting and the definition of its problems, in order to establish the necessary intervention for its restoration and future conservation. In this phase, you learn about the most common types and causes of degradation of the paintings. Then the course moves on to the protection of the pictorial film by means of glazing, an indispensable operation both on paintings on canvas and on panel.
Supports Restoration
The next step consists in the restoration of the supports. Lining, streep lining, suturing of cuts and abrasions, consolidation of the paint with regard to paintings on canvas using the vacuum technique; consolidation and reclamation of the wood part from insect attack and solutions for paint adhesion loss for panel paintings.
Cleaning
A basic knowledge of chemistry will be acquired through the cleaning phase, in order to allow you to
comprehend the criteria for choosing the solvents and their use. Given the complexity of the cleaning operations, you will act on limited parts of the painting. Once the cleaning has been completed, the missing parts are plastered with a spatula for the paintings on canvas and with a brush for those on wood.
AESTETHIC RESTORATION
Gilding
Hints on water and mordant gilding. The teacher will show you (on previously prepared tablets) the various phases of gilding according to the Italian Renaissance system. You will be able to use both real and fake gold.
Color
Notes on the theory of colors. Exhibition of colours useful for the restoration and preparation of palettes.
Painting integration
You acquire the tempera retouching method with varnish color finishing.
Painting
Explanation of natural and synthetic paints and their use.
Italian Artistic Restoration:Introduction to Paintings on Canvas and on Wood