Current Announcements
Unmasking of a tyrant – a conspiracy solved?
What do the graffiti in the Court Chapel’s plaster mean?
01.04.2012
Recovering a dome painting
Completion of the vaulting area above the west gallery
07.03.2012
Sampling
Examination of the original binding agent in red lustre and mordant
27.02.2012
Exposing the original painting in the west dome
Remnants of the 1736 painting found underneath the 1960 overpainting
18.01.2012
Restoration of the oratories
Repairs and retouching on the carved ornaments and spandrel surfaces
05.12.2011
Bole (poliment) gilding
Brief description of the craft technique
25.11.2011
Gilding the stucco
Gloss and matt gilding of the reconstructed stucco elements is now largely complete
28.10.2011
Salt damage to the mural paintings below the central dome
Use of mineral compresses to reduce sulphate salts
21.09.2011
Reconstruction of painted marbling and murals in the area of the window embrasures and lunette cap arches
Sampling completed – painting to start
26.08.2011
Returning to Bossi’s formal language
The 1960 stucco additions included quite trivializing effects that were foreign to Bossi’s work
07.07.2011
Stucco restoration or stucco reconstruction – the problem of armature corrosion
14.06.2011
Dome painting stained and too dark
Brightening the vault painting
16.05.2011
Shadowing in the vault painting
The shadows were extensively repainted in 1960, but their shape, intensity and shade sometimes differ from the original.
06.12.2010
Highest-quality stucco work
Material and surface processing in the eighteenth-century sculptural wall design
09.11.2010
Reconstruction of the marbling in the area of the vaulting
Replacement of damaged and excessively dark marbling dating from 1960
25.10.2010
Removing stucco material dating from the ‘reconstruction’
Use of cellulose compresses for salt reduction
27.09.2010
Stucco applications with preliminary sketches
Antonio Bossi’s creative process
20.08.2010
Inscriptions and signatures
Eighteenth-century graffiti
19.07.2010
Extract from the minutes of a working conference
Stucco ornaments with severe efflorescence of damaging salts
21.06.2010
Material analyses of the vault painting
Results of latest investigation now available
25.05.2010
Sponsor saves the restoration project
Russian entrepreneur Ivan Lirpatsrif replaces lost and damaged glass eyes
01.04.2010
Preliminary studies and documentation
Restorers have been at work on the Court Chapel scaffolding since last month
03.03.2010