The Nicolas
Subtitle: restoration tales in a family history
By: texts by Armando Brignolo and Salvatore Giannella
Publisher: Umberto Allemandi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Turin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9788842216605
Subjects: Art restorers; Art; Conservation and restoration; Laboratorio Nicola
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Piero Angela; title: Guido the barber, story of a partisan / Armando Brignolo; title: Aramengo; title: The Nicolas of Aramengo, the history of a family of restorers and its half-century-long dedication to art / Salvatore Giannella; title: Restoration tales / Salvatore Giannella; title: Our owrk on the Piano Nobile of the Palazzo Madama and the second floor's 93 display cases / Anna Rosa Nicola; title: The virtual cleaning of the Gioconda / Anna Rosa Nicola; title: Strappi and Stacchi: rescues in extremis / Guido Nicola; title: A curious artefact: the Velocimano / Nicola Pisano; title: The world in Aramengo, for the restored flags of the Turin Royal Armoury / Maria Rosa Querini Borri Nicola; title: Japanese national television in Aramengo for Veronese's Telero from Brera / Anna Rosa Nicola; title: A discovery from the Lombroso Museum: Eugenio Lenzi's secret drawer / Gian Luigi Nicola; title: The largest painting on canvas: the curtain from the Cavour Theatre in Imperia / Gianna Tognin Nicola; title: An unforgettable restoration: Jan van Eyck's Saint Francis from the Galleria Sabauda in Turan / Nicola Pisano; title: When my skills seemed like a miracle / Maria Rosa Querini Borri Nicola; title: Heaven could not wait any longer at Sacro Monte in Crea / Gian Luigi Nicola; title: The reconstruction of the Temple of Ellesija: a work that marked my life / Gian Luigi Nicola; title: The Tomb of Anu: the oldest signed painting and Henib's "He Who Gives New Life to Old Things" / Gian Luigi Nicola; title: A vaccumed strengthening in autoclave at sixteen metres of height in the centre of Turin / Gian Luigi Nicola; title: The artist comes to the workshop / Gianna Tognin Nicola; title: The rediscovered triptych of Antonello da Messina / Guido Nicola; title: Scientific investigations: an essential help / Anna Rosa Nicola; title: Afterword: Giovanni Rotondi Terminiello.