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Cosenza, Palazzo Arnone: SITE TRAINING - DEBUT. The restoration of St. Augustine of Mattia Preti reveals the secrets of a masterpiece


Ministero per i Ben i e l e Attività Culturali
Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali
e Paesaggistici della Calabria
SOPRINTENDENZA PER I BENI STORICI, AR T ISTICI
ED ETNOANTROPOLOGIC I DE LLA CALABRIA

CANTIERE DIDATTICO
OPERA APERTA
Il restauro Mattia Preti's St Augustine's
reveals the secrets of a masterpiece

OPENING
Cosenza - Palazzo Arnone
Saturday, February 5, 2011 - 18:00

Saturday, February 5, at 18.00, in Cosenza, Palazzo Arnone, inauguration of OPERA OPEN. The restoration of St. Augustine of Mattia Preti reveals the secrets of a masterpiece , educational site dedicated to the restoration of the painting recently purchased by the rich collection of paintings to raise MiBAC pretiana the National Gallery of Cosenza. Speakers
Fabio De Chirico, Superintendent of Historic, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Calabria, Francesco Prosperetti, regional director of Cultural Heritage and Landscape of Calabria, Gerardo Mario Oliverio, President of the Province of Cosenza, Maria Francesca Corigliano, provincial councilor for culture and Salvatore Perugini, mayor of Cosenza. Will moderate the work-Gemma Anais Principe. The evening will be accompanied by music from the Conservatory Stanislaus Giacomantonio "of Cosenza.
OPEN OPERA is the first work-site "open to the public temporarily housed in the laboratory housed in the old town, at Palazzo Arnone, office of the Superintendent of the National Gallery of Calabria and Cosenza.

initiative designed and developed by the Superintendency of Calabria BSAE turns a restoration site traditionally closed to the public and reserved only for professionals in a cultural event "open" communication and transmission of historical information, artistic, technical and conservation . The restoration is so excellent time of sharing and aggregation of a whole community.
The intervention, which relies on the direction of the work of De Chirico superintendent, will be made by the team of restorers and technical operators of the Superintendent of BSAE Calabria will last approximately sixty days and will be open from Tuesday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 15.00 to 18.00. The wide slot designed to allow audiences to the art of watching and participating in an event that promises to Cosenza and the whole of Calabria, of great interest and novelty. The site is particularly targeted to students dell'UNICAL: it was in fact prepared for the occasion, a protocol with the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Calabria, which will enable young people to acquire credits through learning experience conducted in the field .
The educational visits to the site can be made From Tuesday, February 8, the date of commencement of works. For groups and schools must be booked by calling the following number: 0984795639.
The painting is unpublished work of Cavalier Calabrese, and therefore still no attention from the critics. A replica of the subject
Cosenza, the dating remains uncertain, is preserved in the Abbey of Montecassino. This is a copy taken from a painting by Claude Vignon probably executed in Rome between 1617 and 1624. Another copy is in Dublin at the National Gallery of Ireland. The St. Augustine is presumably dating from sixth to seventh decade of the seventeenth century in the years when he returned to Mattia Preti meditate on previous work experience an initial orientation to the essential. The reduced palette suggests that the painting could be a study made by Maltese artist in the first period, with the help of the shop. After the restoration work will be permanently exhibited in the National Gallery of Cosenza.

Mattia Preti - St. Augustine

Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Calabria
Supervisor: Fabio De Chirico

TEACHING SITE
OPERA OPEN
The restoration of St. Augustine of Mattia Preti reveals the secrets of a masterpiece

OPENING
Cosenza - Palazzo Arnone
Saturday, February 5 18:00

Press : Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Calabria
Silvio Rubens Vivone - Patrick Carravetta
Tel: 0984 795639 fax 0984 71246
Email: SBSA
-cal.ufficiostampa @ beniculturali.it

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