THEORY & HISTORY OF PROTECTION CONSERVATION & RESTORATION OF MONUMENTS & WORKS OF ART

Specific Foundation

Upon successful completion of the course, students will: • understand the framework of the general principles of conservation and restoration of cultural monuments • acquire knowledge of international rules and conventions for the preservation and restoration of cultural monuments • familiarize with the widely accepted ethics for the restoration of cultural monuments • familiarize with the interdisciplinary collaboration required for the restoration of cultural monuments • acquire the correct theoretical bases for solving the problems related to the restoration of monuments

The purpose of the course is for the student: a) to become familiar with the concepts related to the protection of cultural monuments, b) to acquire a theoretical background of knowledge necessary for solving conservation and restoration problems, c) through a longitudinal monitoring of how cultural monuments are treated from antiquity to the present day, to understand and interpret today's ethical protection, conservation and restoration, to focus on ideological aspects, analyzing the changing practice of conservation at every moment of history. Why, what, how and for whom? The aim of the course is for the student to acquire the necessary skills to be able, as a future restorer, based on a framework of general principles, international rules, a widely accepted ethics and an interdisciplinary cooperation, to put on a correct theoretical basis his proposals for solving the problems of conservation and restoration of cultural monuments. The following topics will be developed in the course: Historical Perspective 1. The treatment of the work of art and the monument from antiquity to the Baroque era 2. The continuity and relationship between the present and the past 3. Continuity and past-present relationship 4. The Industrial Revolution, Illuminism, Classicism, Romanticism, Eclecticism and their Relationship to Monuments. 5. Winchelmann, the Philhellenic movement and the acquisition of a new historical consciousness as a prerequisite for the restoration of monuments. 6. The restoration between experience and theory. 7. The stylistic (Viollet-le-Duc), the romantic (Ruskin) and the historical (Beltrami) restoration. 8. Philological and scientific restoration 9. The Map of Athens and the restoration in the interwar period. 10. World War II, its consequences on monuments and the crisis of Scientific restoration Theory-Principles, Ideology of Conservation and Restoration 1. Analysis of concepts, terminology (Greek and international): cultural object, monument – work of art, conservation, restoration, restoration, reconstruction, restoration of original form, renovation, reuse, creative restoration, sanitization, revival, continuous conservation. 2. Historical-critical foundation of the restoration 3. The critical restoration (G. Argan, A. Pica, R. Pane, R. Bonelli. Restoration as a "method of criticism" and creative action" 4. The theory of C. Brandi: the material of the work of art, the potential unity, the time of the work of art, the restoration according to the aesthetic and historical values of the work of art, the patina, the space of the work of art, the principles for the restoration of architectural monuments 5. Addressing the lacuna gap in artwork and architecture 6. The map of Venice 7. Monument and environment-restoration of historical centers. Amsterdam Declaration. 8. Modern trends in restoration 9. Modern problems and practices in conservation-restoration 10. From heritage conservation to valorisation Lectures: Dimitrios Zygomalas Anastasia Kapandriti

restoration, restoration, reconstruction, revival, comprehensive conservation, preservation, cultural asset, cultural heritage, monument, lacuna, ruin aesthetic value, historic center, historic site, historicity

02-01-2024