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Naples, cloister of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Incurable Hospital

Date

Monday April 18th, 2016

DATA SHEET

AUTHOR:

Paul Brill

DATING:

XVII century

LOCATION:

Naples, Cloister of Santa Maria delle Grazie – Incurable Hospital

CUSTOMER:

Superintendence for the State Museums of Naples and the Royal Palace of Caserta, Dr. Anna Pisani

THE PROBLEM

The preservation status of the paintings is mainly related to the general degradation of the Cloister with infiltration problems related to the roofs and the angular descendants which are almost inefficient, causing  plasters and the vaults impregnation.
The general state of neglect, which lasts a long time, is the main cause of the progressive detachment caused by the falling or powdering of the painting film, process that – over wide areas –  finished with the definitive loss of the decoration.

THE METHOD

Our intervention was extended to four bays and was particularly focused on the conservative perspective and, as a consequence, on the strenghtening and compensation of the adhesion of the painting film, in order to stop  detachment and  falling processes. At the end of this phase we have implemented the surfaces’ cleaning  by alterations and repainting, to finally proceed with the pictorial re-integration.