How a 583-year-old Italian mural is professionally restored

Mar 04, 2021 507

BY: Jacky Barile

My name is Andrea Sozzi Sabatini, and I'm the CEO and founder of Etrurio. It's a farm where it aims to produce top-quality olive oil in Tuscany. Today, I'm going to walk you through how Marco restores this beautiful 583-year-old fresco.

The first work that we have to do is to consolidate the walls. The first thing is really to take the stones that are unstable, take them off, consolidate whatever is underneath, and then put the stones back to their places. In this large fresco, there are cracks here and there, so the next step is to consolidate these cracks. The cracks get consolidated with resin, special resin.

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