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Cooperativa Mosaicisti
Ravenna

"The Dance of the Seasons" restauration in laboratory.
This mosaic is from the excavation in M.D'Azeglio. Ravenna.

Therestoration activity of the Association began during the postwar period, when because
of the bombings a large part of the mosaic heritage needed timely interventions.
The preservative experience of the group occurred on the field , that is to say during the
interventions on the S.Vitale Cathedral and on the Battistero Neoniano, at the beginning under the guidance of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence.


Detail of "The Shepard" taken from the excavation in Fonticelle (Matellica) before and after the cleaning using the aeroabrasive technique.	Restauration in laboratory.	Alba (TO) frescoes before and after the restoration

The method of lifting, initiated with the collaboration of Florence, and perfected by the Group in the fifties and sixties, was definitely abandoned in 1978 for the parietal mosaics, but reiterated for the floor ones.
Nowadays the restoration follows a partially different path, characterised, besides from an attentive documentation, from different techniques and materials, put ready by staffs of chemists and researchers who collaborate in a more and more active way to the different steps of intervention.
It is for this purpose that the Association got fortified by the active and constant collaboration with C.N.R. - IRTEC (seat of Ravenna) run by doctor C.Fiori.

At this point we list some of the restoration yards carried out during more than fifty years of activity: S.Vitale Cathedral, Galla Placidia Mausoleum, S.Apollinare Nuovo Cathedral and S.Apollinare in Classe, Neoniano and Ariani Baptistery, Archiepiscopal Chapel, S.Francesco, S.Severo in Classe, Roman Villa in Russi; in Ravenna the restoration of parts of the mosaics coming from the more important archaeological unit found in Via Massimo D'Azaglio have been carried out as well.
Other yards have been held in several towns in Italy, among which we list: Grado, Aquileia, Pomposa, Pesaro, Ancona, Salerno, Calle, Grumentum, Bova Marina and many others.

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