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.
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 Collection, Cup with the labours or Ercule ©FondazioneTorlonia Ph Lorenzo De Masi
Torlonia Collection, Iside ©FondazioneTorlonia Ph Lorenzo De Masi.jpg
Torlonia Collection, Invitation to dance ©FondazioneTorlonia Ph Lorenzo De Masi.jpg
Torlonia Collection, Aphrodite ©FondazioneTorlonia Ph Lorenzo De Masi
Torlonia Collection, Group with warrior ©FondazioneTorlonia Ph Lorenzo De Masi
Torlonia Collection, Meleagro ©FondazioneTorlonia Ph Lorenzo De Masi
