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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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Articles |
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Reconstructing a 1972’s Neon Light Installation at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto |
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| by Filipe Duarte | |
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A 1972’s neon light
installation from the artist António Quadros Ferreira was investigated
and reconstructed 35 years after its original presentation, under a
pilot project on Conservation of Contemporary Art at the Museum of the
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP). The
reconstruction of the artwork was carried out in close communication
with the artist without whom this project would not have been
possible to be
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accomplished - such was the lack of information available on the artwork.
This article aims to describe the whole process behind the reconstruction of Quadros Ferreira’s installation, from the identification of what was left from the original components at FBAUP’s Museum depot until its reinstallation and public exhibition in April 2007. |
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Case Study |
| The Church of "The Beheading of St. John the Baptist" from Arbore Previous Interventions from the Perspective of Derestoration |
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| by Anca Dina and Oliviu Boldura | |
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The painting from the
church “The Beheading of St. John the Baptist” from Arbore, Romania,
can be described as vivid in chromatic harmonies, often using the
dialog between green and pale-red and spontaneous by its graceful and
beautifully modulated drawing. Dynamic in the interaction between the
characters’ gestures and attitudes, the painting is minutely elaborated
in the smallest detail and compositionally determined with blocks of
architecture carefully distributed.
These qualities, the stylistic and chromatic particularities, made the church become part of the UNESCO World Heritage. |
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2.1. Assumption Church, Cepari
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News |
| 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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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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