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2.1. Assumption Church, Cepari
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| Medieval Values Discovered at the Assumption Church, Cepari Village, Arges, Romania (1752) |
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| by Mihail Gabriel Birhala | |
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The conservation works of
the mural paintings from the church of Cepari Village brought to light
the existence of a valuable ensemble of Romanian medieval paintings
from 1752. The discovered frescoes were entirely covered by oil
paintings executed between 1889 and 1890. Unexpected evidences of older
painting beneath the new one were found during the preliminary research
performed for the submission of the conservation project.
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Documentation |
Documentation for Architecture Conservation:
La Villetta Cemetery in Parma, Italy
a project coordinated by Michela Rossi
| Formal References in Funerary Architecture | |
| by Maria Carmen Nuzzo | |
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With the advent of the
consumer society and the standardisation of life, the city of the
living has created homogeneous neighbourhoods of dormitories and
globalised malls and the city of the dead has been filled with crowded
burial chambers in anonymous and “normalized” structures.
The modern culture has created the “not places”, which means spaces lacking identity, non relational and with no history. |
| The Urban Planning of Parma Cemeterial System by Silvia Ombellini |
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| The cemetery is “another city”. Its foundation and its increase are similar to the urban one. The cemeterial system, which in Parma was born in the last half of 19th century, presents various analogies with the urban system. Cemeteries are orientated according to the roman centuriation. They are characterised by the presence of the external wall, in analogy to the urban wall, and by the symbolism of the centre. Since the Second World War, the plot of the cemetery has become untidy, chaotic and anonymous, like that of the city. The city of the dead has spread out, and its limit has come nearer the living city. |  |
| The Master Plan for the Safeguarding and Restoration of La Villetta by Elisa Adorni |
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The Master Plan for the
safeguarding and the restoration (afterward called PPO) of the
Villetta’s monumental Octagon is part of a larger intervention of the
cemetery planning system in Parma. The PPO is the completion of the
Cemetery Rules recently adopted.
The development of a specific
rule, with the individualisation of the historical centre of the urban
cemetery, has allowed the evaluation of the historical -architectural
heritage of the monumental cemetery.
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| The Virtual Museum - The Memory of the Cemetery Heritage by Simone Riccardi |
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| The idea of a Virtual
Museum comes from the need to control and to distribute a complex data
system. The research about the Villetta cemetery developed by the
University and Municipality of Parma - has generated a great deal of
historical, social, artistic and iconographic information. The main goal of the virtual museum is to organize this information through routes of knowledge and tools of research. |
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Book Review |
| Lost City, Resumed Architectures | |
| a book by Michela Rossi, reviewed by Federica Ottoni | |
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There are many ways to enter into a cemetery.
We could inquire it by reading stories of ancient poets, looking at old paintings on its surrounding walls, or searching for old documents about its foundation. Alternatively, we could walk all around the city, through fields drawn by channels and trees, trying to detect a network of buried structures. There, a system of cemeteries seems to be created for an unexpected escape. Probably from life. |
2.12. LACONA VI Proceedings
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Book Review |
LACONA VI Proceedings
(Laser in the Conservations of Artworks)
| reviewed by Rui Bordalo | |
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The conservation works of
the mural paintings from the church of Cepari Village brought to light
the existence of a valuable ensemble of Romanian medieval paintings
from 1752. The discovered frescoes were entirely covered by oil
paintings executed between 1889 and 1890. Unexpected evidences of older
painting beneath the new one were found during the preliminary research
performed for the submission of the conservation project.
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| Lecture on Preventive Conservation of Contemporary Art 30 November 2007, Sintra, Portugal |
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| e-conservationline | |
Organiser: The Leal da Cāmara Museum |
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The Leal da Cāmara Museum
is a small institution dedicated to the life and work of the Portuguese
master Leal da Cāmara. Among several artistic activities, the museum
promotes regular talks on several subjects including museology and
conservation. On this context, on November 30th Nuno Moreira,
conservator and adviser of the Portuguese Museum Network, gave a talk
on Preventive Conservation of Contemporary Art.
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