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ART CONSERVATION COURSE (ROME 224) - TRINITY COLLEGE ROME CAMPUS SPRING SEMESTER 2016

Professor Francesca Persegati Master Conservator Vatican Museums - Painting Restoration Laboratory E-mail: [email protected] Cell phone: 333.473.5579 ART CONSERVATION (Rome 224) - Trinity College Rome Campus - Spring Semester 2016 1

SYLLABUS –

DESCRIPTION “The aim of this course is to help the students to deepen their understanding and appreciation of art by viewing masterpieces as complex, vulnerable materials that require our involvement in conservation if we are to grasp and preserve the artists’ message. We will examine firsthand outstanding examples of art conservation in several media and from different periods in history: we will focus on the properties of materials and the different way they show the effect of the ravages of time. We will also discuss preventive conservation, particularly the importance of environment and the ideal parameters of temperature, humidity, air quality, and lighting. We will learn how to prevent damage, how to store, preserve, exhibit, loan works of art and establish rules for lending and receiving museums. About thirteen slide lectures in the classroom alternate with as many on-site instructions at museums, monuments, and conservation workshops. We will meet experts involved in the conservation field (scientists, conservators, restorers, technicians) and we will visit places usually closed to the public.” DETAILS Professor: Francesca Persegati Class: smaller classroom (room number 20 at the end of the ground floor in the convent dormitory) Texts: At the beginning of the Course you will receive a CD containing printed material that will be your “pocket library”. It contains: - Cesare Brandi, “Theory of restoration” (TO BE STUDIED DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEMESTER) - Tiziano Scarpa, “Venice is a fish” (captivating writing to be read in view of the Venice trip) - Supporting material concerning lessons and tours If after every lesson and every tour you study the material related to them you will find it easier to make a thorough analysis of the subject matter. Don’t wait the week before the exams to do it!! Books and periodicals in English on restoration/conservation of the art media will be available at the ICCROM Library (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation of Cultural Property) Via di S.Michele n.13 in Trastevere, very close to the Campus. Website: http: //library.iccrom.org. Visits to the library are mandatory.

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ART CONSERVATION (Rome 224) - Trinity College Rome Campus - Spring Semester 2016 GUIDELINES FOR STUDENTS – Are you interested in conservation? Do you like search for and to walk through exposed and subterranean sites? If the answer is YES you have to follow these rules: 1. You will be expected to attend ALL classes, tours and guest lectures. 2. Missing more than two or three classes/tours will REDUCE your final grade. 3. If you cannot attend a tour notify me on time. Missing a tour is like missing a lesson. 4. Be punctual! - The lessons last 60 minutes. We only have 13 lessons. 5. We cannot afford to lose time. Punctuality at the tours is needed also to respect the hours given by our hosts when booking our visits. 6. We are going to meet directly at the site of our tours (usually around 3.30 pm). Consequently you may have TO RUSH OUT OF another Class. 7. A proper dress is required for tours in the Vatican City (Museums, Laboratories, Casino of Pius IV, Mosaic Studio, etc.) and the Verano Cemetery. No shorts and no spaghetti shoulder straps are allowed. 8. Sensible shoes are suggested for the Porto Necropolis tour. The site is open country (no flip-flops). 9. At the end of the lessons please clean up out of respect for the professor and the students who will use the same classroom. 10. When communicating with me by e-mail always confirm reception of my messages. I know you may be tired at 4.55 PM when we start our lessons but we cannot do anything about it. I will be tired, too! A coffee may help… Feel free to call me or send an e-mail when you need to contact me.

Francesca Persegati

ART CONSERVATION (Rome 224) - Trinity College Rome Campus - Spring Semester 2016 CALENDAR – Lessons and tours are scheduled as follows: (circumstances may cause slight changes to the syllabus)

LESSONS (small classroom) Every Monday 4.55 – 5.55 PM Jan. 25 Introduction NO LESSON

VISITS

FORMS/ PAPERS

Every Tuesday 3.30 (on site) – 18.30 PM Jan. 26 NO TOUR

Feb. 1 Brandi’s Theory of restoration (1st part)

Feb. 2 - Vatican Museums Scientific Research Laboratory and Vatican Museums Paintings Restoration Laboratory Wednesday 3: last day allowed for changing courses Feb. 8 Brandi’s Theory of restoration (2nd part) Feb. 9 - Piazza Farnese Tour (surfaces exposed to the environment) st Feb. 12 – 14 : 1 Long Weekend - Academic trips scheduled during this weekend for some of the courses Feb. 15 Venice conservation problems Feb. 16 Vatican Mosaic studio Feb. 19 - 21 : Campus trip to Venice Feb. 22 The restoration of the Acheropita image Feb. 23 (IN CLASS) A talk with Gael De Guichen ( a leader and its secrets in heritage conservation) Feb. 29 Casino of Pope Pius IV (Renaissance Mar. 1 Visit to the Casino of Pope Pius IV in the Vatican stucco and fresco decorations) Gardens March. 7 – 11 SPRING SEMESTER MID-TERM EXERCISES Mar. 7 (INCLASS) Mar. 8 Central Institute for Restoration laboratories (paintings on canvass, wood and contemporary art) Mid-term exercise Mar. 14 The Vatican Necropolis (a model project in Mar. 15 “Lesson” on Plaster cast conservation at the conservation) Museum-Atelier & Café Canova –Tadolini March 27 - daylight saving time starts (clocks are turned forward 1 hour) March 19 - 28 - SPRING BREAK Mar. 28 NO CLASS Mar. 29 The roman Necropolis of Porto (Ostia Antica)

Feb. 9 - Heritage form to be returned

Mar. 1 - Venice paper to be returned

2nd Long Week-end (April 1 – 3) - Academic trips scheduled during this weekend for some of the courses Apr. 4 – Museums management (1st part)

Apr. 5 The Vatican Ethnological Museum and its storage

APRIL 9, SATURDAY – Trip to Tarquinia EXCLUSIVELY FOR Art Conservation (The necropolis of Tarquinia represents some of the best examples of ancient painting of western Mediterranean, of the pre-Roman period. Of all Etruscan frescoes, 90% are in Tarquinia) Apr. 11 - Museums management (2nd part) Apr. 12 - Street art in Rome: a tour with Professor Marie Kraft 3rd Long Week-end (April 15 – 17) - Academic trips scheduled during this weekend for some of the courses Apr. 18 The restoration of an Egyptian Funeral Apr. 19 – Rome Verano Cemetery: an “open air museum” Shroud Apr. 25 – Rotondi (the man who saved Italy’s Apr. 26 – (IN CLASS) Lesson on wood conservation and treasures from Nazi hands) or Contemporary art Montelparo movie conservation May 2 – 5 FINAL EXAMINATIONS – FINAL PAPER DUE NEW TOUR ! - Visit at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero’s home (a unique subterranean site). Date to be decided.

Apr. 5 – Porto form to be returned

Apr. 12 – Final paper 1° draft

ART CONSERVATION (Rome 224) - Trinity College Rome Campus - Spring Semester 2016 TESTS – examinations are scheduled as follows:

- MID-TERM EXERCISES: March, Monday 7 afternoon (to be confirmed): one hour exercise1 (about 4 questions with photos) on the Brandi’s Theory of Restoration. AIM - You have to show knowledge of how the basic principles you learned apply to actual restoration. - FINAL EXAMINATION: the date between May, Monday 2 – Thursday 5 afternoon will be decided at the proper time. Two hours in length2 (about 2 questions to which you should answer assuming you are writing an article on conservation subject for your hometown paper, directed to a general audience). AIM – Your articles have to prove that you profited from the course and understood the meaning of restoration and conservation in view of encouraging promotion/support of them. - FINAL PAPER: You have to choose a work of art or an element of cultural heritage you had been in contact with during the semester and plan a proper conservation strategy for it. I expect to receive a first draft (2pages) by April 12. To be returned at the Final Examination3. AIM – You have to show what you learned about the different techniques in art, to have knowledge of all elements potentially damaging artifacts, and of the theory justifying the intervention: you must think as a conservator. - A FORM TO FILL OUT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED during the Porto Necropolis tour (March 29). I expect to receive back the form by April 5. AIM - To direct your attention to technical details. - A SHORT PAPER WILL BE ASSIGNED ALSO (after the trip to Venice Feb. 19 - 21) on “The Degradation of the City of Venice”. I expect to receive the paper by March 1. AIM - When in Venice don’t’ look only at the beauty of buildings and monuments but check on its construction materials, causes of degradation and conservation projects with the aim to answer the question: “Will Venice disappear?”

If you need extra time you have to talk to Professor Pestilli. Ibidem. 3 Between 6 and 8 pages completed on a word processor, font size and spacing like the ones above. Have the sheets stapled. 1

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TRINITY COLLEGE / ROME CAMPUS - CLASS SCHEDULE SPRING 2016 MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY Italian

Italian 101B Ital. 101A 9:30-11:00

9:00-10:30

Italian 101C

Ital. 202

Ital. 201

10:30-

10:40-11:30

11:10-12:00

11:45

Splendors Mussolini's of Rome Money & Banking Early (R301/Econ 301) Christian & (R 285) 10:00-11:15 Medieval Art (R238) 9:00-12:30

Ancient Art of Rome

Italy: Sports & Society

(R230)

(R285)

Drawing Intro. To the Art of Rome (R120)

9:00-12:30

(R 181)

Bernini & his World

Urban

Italian 201

299

& Global (R270)

9:00-9:50

9:00-9:50

(R322) 9:00-12:30

9:00 - 12:00

9:00-12:30

9:00-12:30

Ital. 101B 10:00-10:50 Ital. 101A

Ital. 101C

10:30-

10:35-

Ital. 102

11:20

11:50

11:0012:15

Money-Macro 9:00-12:30

9:00-12:30

11:30-12:45 LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

Laundry 1:30-2:00

Internship Seminar 1:40 - 2:30

Ital. 101A

Ancient Art Intro. To Art Medieval Art

2:00-2:50

Italian 299

Ital. 102

Italian 101A

1:45-2:35

1:45-2:35

2:00-2:50

Money & Banking Ital. 101 B

(R301/Econ 301)

2:00-2:50

2:00-3:15

(R230)

(R181)

(R238)

Ital. 101B

Italian 201

Italian

2:30-3:20

2:30-3:20

2:30-3:20

2:40-3:30

3:00-3:50

202

City of

Bernini

Rome (R250)

& his World (R340)

Art

Italian 101C

Ital. 101C

3:30-4:50

3:30-4:20

Conserv.

3:40-4:30

3:40-4:30

City of

Money-Macro

Rome

3:00-3:50

(R224) Art Convserv. 4:55-5:55

LUNCH

3:30-7:00

No classes on Friday afternoons unless otherwise stated in the

3:30-4:15 Italian

2:00-5:00

TC/RC calendar, specified in a course syllabus,

Child Development

102

Child Development

or mutually agreed to by a

(R 295)

4:00-5:15

(R 295)

professor and students

4:40-5:55

4:40-5:55

Cinema

Read. Anc.

Urban & Global

Cinema

(R217)

Rome (R316)

(R270)

(R217)

Read. Anc. Rome

6:00-7:15

6:00-7:15

6:00-7:15

6:00-7:15

6:00-7:15

NOTE: CLASSROOM COLOR CODES RED Larger classroom with "red" chairs at the convent WHITE Smaller classroom (room number 20 at the end of the ground floor in the convent dormitory) YELLOW Seminar room in Via Raimondo da Capua 2 (new office) BLUE Walking Tour out in the city

ART CONSERVATION (Rome 224) - Trinity College Rome Campus - Spring Semester 2016 This HANDOUT contains supporting material concerning lessons and tours

1° Folder - First day material 2° Folder - Lessons abstracts 3° Folder - Books 4° Folder - Index 5° Folder – Material concerning lessons 6° Folder - Material concerning tours 7° Folder - Additional material on Venice 8° Folder - Scientific libraries in Rome 9° Folder – Terminology (test being prepared) 10° Folder – Additional material on stone decay 11° Folder – About Tarquinia

ART CONSERVATION (Rome 224) - Trinity College Rome Campus - Spring Semester 2016 First day students’ questionnaire: (Readable handwriting!)

1. What is your name? …………………………………………………………………………………………………….............................................

What State and town do you come from? …………………………………………………………………………………………………….............................................

What College/University are you enrolled at? What are you studying there? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………............................................. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….............................................

What other course are you presently attending at the Rome Campus? …………………………………………………………………………………………………….............................................

2. What line of work do you intend to pursue? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………............................................. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….............................................

3. What do you expect to achieve from this course? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………............................................. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………............................................. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….............................................

4. What does “restoration” mean to you? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………........................................... ……………………………………………………………………………………………………........................................... ……………………………………………………………………………………………………...........................................

5. What does “conservation” mean to you? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………......... ……………………………………………………………………………………………………........................................... ...................................................................................................................................................................................... .

6. e-mail ………………………………......... Italian cellphone………………………………………… 10. Do you have and use a digital camera?

Yes

If you need more space, write on the back.

No

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