Video from Luxury Living
Preserving Histories Most Iconic Cathedrals, Monasteries and Artworks - is an Art Itself
"Scenes of History, great buildings, are the emblems and showcases of nations. The diversity of materials and objects that face the workshops restoring these great artworks - palaces, monasteries, cathedrals - requires a small army of specialists that must understand in detail technologies and manufacturing processes that were forgotten or became obsolete a long time ago. The great variety of operations corresponds to the variety of objects and artworks of diverse origins that have been accumulated over time. Most of the work has a multidisciplinary character, which is a response to the integrated notion of these ensembles, since any individual piece is only a part and gains meaning within an overall decorative architecture, according to a certain taste and historical style.Large gilded areas occupy hundreds of meters in the ensemble and, in order to keep them sparkling, the skill of the main gilders in handling and applying the thinnest gold leaves is irreplaceable. The cabinet-making and textile workshops attend to the upholstery of broad surfaces and of palatial furniture; craftsmen and artists work on ceramic reliefs and pieces, and set the clocks that have marked the pace of weddings and funerals, of war and peace; they return colour to the ancient tenants' paintings and to the enormous frescos, examples of the best mural and religious painting of its time." from the video introduction
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