FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE II

Part of the core teaching in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management, the course is designed for students enrolled in the curricula "Art History" and "Archaeology". As a rule, the students enrolled in the curricula “Performative Arts” and “ Arts Management” cannot be admitted in this course: another one, with a different program, is dedicated to them.

This teaching unit offers 6 credits and is the first part of a 12-credit course, together with "FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE, IIa" (FT0451-1), letters M-Z, which is taught in the first period. For registration reasons, it is not possible to take one module in the course for letters M-Z and another in the course for letters A-L. As a general rule, please attend the two modules to which each participant has been assigned on the basis of her/his last name.

Further information about the registration and publication of the score will be provided in the "Notices" of the instructor's institutional web pages and during the first class.

- Knowledge and understanding of the main art techniques, their materials and processes.

- Understanding of the most common conservation problems raised by the art media discussed.

- Ability to properly use the vocabulary of art techniques and conservation.

- Ability to describe and compare the making process of artifacts and highlight its significance with respect to several disciplines.

The course is addressed to second-year students and gives for granted the notions that can be acquired in the first-year courses.

The course is held in Italian and in-person. The program will be structured around the following topics:
- knowledge of the procedures of the main artistic techniques, on the basis of the cognitive data obtainable from the sources and from the data coming from the technical-scientific investigations;
- wall, panel and canvas painting techniques: from the support, to the preparation methods, to the drawing techniques, up to the use of binders and colors, to conclude the finishing and varnishing elements;
- main printing techniques and related function in history
Case studies on the opportunities and limits of diagnostics applied to cultural heritage will be discussed.
Outlines of the history of restoration and main techniques of cleaning and pictorial integration, investigated on a historiographical basis.

Texts (A) Adopted and (R) Recommended:
(A) Tecniche dell'arte, testi di Sandro Baroni et al., a cura di Sandro Baroni e Micaela Mander, prefazione di Giorgio Bonsanti, Milano, Mursia, 2021, 2 voll; volume 1, pp. 9-46, 49-176, 189-219, 235-262, 302-338, 386-409; volume 2: 67-106, 445-493;
(R) Corrado Maltese, a cura di, Le tecniche artistiche, Milano, Mursia,1973, pp. 11-62, 137-165, 173-189, 195-198;
(A) Alessandro Conti, Manuale di restauro, a cura di Marina Romiti Conti, Torino, Einaudi, 2001 (Einaudi 1996), pp. 24-41, 63-79 e 172-190;
(R), Cesare Brandi, Teoria del restauro, 1963, edizione Torino, Einaudi, 2000, pp. 3-8, 53-61, 71-76, 89-97.

The final exam consists of open-answer and closed-answer questions (closed-book form).

Plagiarism implies the immediate invalidation of the proof. Exchange of information with others is not allowed during the proof.

Lecturs and dialogues, with the help of additional materials and power point files. Acces to the Moodle space of the course is mandatory.

Provisional version.

Ca' Foscari applies the Italian laws for the support of students with disabilities or specific learning disorders. If you have a motor, visual, hearing disability, another impairment (Law 17/1999) or a specific learning disorder (Law 170/2010) and require support (classroom assistance, technological aids for taking exams or individualized exams, materials in accessible format, note retrieval, specialized tutoring to support study, interpreters, or other), please contact the Disability and DSA office (disabilita@unive.it) BEFORE THE COURSE STARTS.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development