Published 2022-12-01
“…In the early years of the Central Institute of Restoration, immediately after World War II, Cesare Brandi had to face many issues related to the war destruction, relying on a small group of young restorers who would have become his most trusted collaborators over time. Three
talented women would have played a fundamental role in this group: Nerina
Neri, Laura Sbordoni and later Anna Maria Sorace and Franca Callori di Vignale, involved at the forefront by Brandi in experiments and research that will mark on the one hand the definition of an institutionally acknowledged practice of intervention, and on the other accomplishing the transition from "artist restorer" to "technical restorer" that both Giulio Carlo Argan and Cesare Brandi had envisioned in their theoretical studies.…”
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