Torlonia Collection, Cup with the labours or Ercule ©FondazioneTorlonia Ph Lorenzo De Masi

Torlonia Laboratories

Contemporary restoration offers a moment of insight in which new light is cast on the history of the works. While in years gone by the interventions aimed to recreate the entirety of the sculpture, reconstructing the missing or deteriorated parts, today they also have a cognitive value: for each work a book is compiled with restoration data and drawings, telling the story of its conservation, complete with photographic and graphic documentation, the state of conservation, the techniques and the constitutive materials adopted. On the basis of the status of the marble, various kinds of cleaning methods are used, alternating between mechanical, physical and chemical.

Torlonia Laboratories

Contemporary restoration offers a moment of insight in which new light is cast on the history of the works. While in years gone by the interventions aimed to recreate the entirety of the sculpture, reconstructing the missing or deteriorated parts, today they also have a cognitive value: for each work a book is compiled with restoration data and drawings, telling the story of its conservation, complete with photographic and graphic documentation, the state of conservation, the techniques and the constitutive materials adopted. On the basis of the status of the marble, various kinds of cleaning methods are used, alternating between mechanical, physical and chemical.