Baroque Frescos Conserved in Bologna

June 21 2021

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

News from Italy that a set of seventeenth century frescos in the Basilica of San Martino Maggiore, Bologna, have been restored. The scene entitled La lezione di San Pier Tommaso o Tomà was completed by the figure painter Lucio Massari and the architectural painter Girolamo Curti in 1629. The project has been the pipeline since 2017 when it was decided that the frescos should be conserved and displayed to the public.

Here's a detail of the frescos before restoration. Curiously, it seems to show that three holes were punched through the wall at some point, perhaps for the use of a projector:


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