“Art Monitoring”: Unprecedented project in Venice

(18 Dec 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Venice – 6 December 2022
1.Restorer Alberto Marcon on mobile scaffolding in front of Tintoretto’s “Il Paradiso”
HEADLINE:
“Art Monitoring”: Unprecedented project in Venice
2. Hand of Alberto Marcon cleaning a face on “Il Paradiso”
3. Restorer Alberto Marcon on mobile scaffolding in front of Tintoretto’s “Il Paradiso”
ANNOTATION: “Art restorers in Venice are conducting a massive art monitoring project at Palazzo Ducale, the Doge’s Palace.”
4. Scaffolding in Hall of Ten in Doge’s Palace, center of ceiling is a copy by Jacopo D’Andrea of Paolo Veronese’s “Jupiter Hurtling Thunderbolts at the Vices”
5. Restorer Romana Albini working on wooden ornamentation on ceiling of the Hall of the Ten in the Doge’s Palace
ANNOTATION: “Using mobile scaffolding they are studying every centimetre of the interiors, checking its precious artworks and elaborate ornamentation.”
6. Close of restorer Alberto Marcon
7. Wide of “Il Paradiso” with restorer Alberto Marcon on scaffolding working
ANNOTATION: “Restorer Alberto Marcon is working on Tintoretto’s “Il Paradiso”. At roughly 150 square meters, it’s one of the largest paintings in the world.”
8. Marcon mapping the decayed parts of the surface of Tintoretto’s “Il Paradiso”
9. Macron working on the painting
ANNOTATION: “He is mapping out the surface noting the decayed parts that will require intervention or restoration.”
10. Marcon moving light on scaffolding to show another part of painting
11. Close of Marcon brushing
ANNOTATION: “Part of the work includes carefully dusting off the artworks with soft brushes to check for peeling paint and other possible damage.”
12. Restorer Romana Albini working on wooden ornamentation on ceiling of the Hall of the Ten in the Doge’s Palace
13. Close of syringe with glue
ANNOTATION: “They use syringes to inject glue into the wooden ornamentation to protect it from decay.”
14. Wide of Chamber of the Great Council with movable scaffolding on right hand side
15. Close of frieze around the top of Chamber of the Great Council done after the great fire of 1577 by Tintoretto’s son Domenico, restorer dusting painting
ANNOTATION: “The city of Venice’s project, handled by the Fondazione Musei Civici, began in June of this year and will continue for 14 months.”
16. Restorer taking photo of detail of painting
ANNOTATION: “All the information collected by the restorers will go into a database.”
17. Restorer using a magnifying glass to check painting for layers of paint that are peeling off or if there are old restoration jobs that have decayed
18. Writing in frieze showing “pentimento” – bits that have been painted over by the artist
ANNOTATION: “The Italian government has provided half a million euros in funding.”
19. Restorer Alberto Marcon on mobile scaffolding in front of Tintoretto’s “Il Paradiso”
20. Architect and Restorer Arianna Abbate, Project Director of the Palazzo Ducale restoration, climbing up scaffolding next to Tintoretto’s huge oil painting “Il Paradiso” covering one wall of the Chamber of the Great Council room in Palazzo Ducale in Venice
ANNOTATION: “Director Arianna Abbate says the project is “the new frontier for conservation” giving top priority to art monitoring.”
21. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Arianna Abbate, Restorer, Project Director:
“To give so much importance, time and funds to this kind of intervention and monitoring project is absolutely unusual. It might be the new frontier of conservation. Anticipate to protect.”
22. Gondola in Venice Lagoon
24. Close of Gondolas with tourists
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