70761 - Laboratory of Restoration 3 (Ceramic and Glass Materials and Products)

Learning outcomes

The workshop activity (250 hours) examines ceramic artefacts. At the end of the workshop activity, the student, starting from the direct examination of the works, also by means of specially set up school workshops, is able to identify the material and morphological characteristics and to assess any problems of alteration and degradation; he/she possesses the skills to define an appropriate conservation and restoration methodology and to identify the most suitable products for treatment.

Course contents

The teaching includes a theoretical part (carried out with examples, case studies, bibliographical studies) interfaced with the technical-practical activity of conservation and restoration.

Laboratory activity examines the study and restoration of ceramic and glass artefacts; activities are carried out in the laboratory and at archaeological sites or sites of museum interest, at school sites and in the laboratory.


CERAMICS

1.Preliminary work on artefacts from archaeological sites or museums preparatory to complete restoration.

2.Conservative restoration: Cleaning/stabilisation, Consolidation, Recomposition.

3.Formal and pictorial integration: techniques and materials.

4.First intervention on the excavation; methods and techniques for recovering the artefacts and documentation of all phases by means of analytical sheets, graphic and photographic surveys.

5.In situ prevention, safety and maintenance.

6. Visits to archaeological museums analysis of the path of the artefact from excavation to musealisation, examples.


GLASS

1.Consolidation of the glass surface, problems and comparison between different polymers.

2.The integration of technical and methodological gaps.

3.The integration of the lacunae by direct method.

4. Gap integration by indirect method.

Readings/Bibliography

EMILIANI G. P.- CORBARA F.,Ceramic Technology - The Raw Materials- Volume I. Faenza, Gruppo editoriale Faenza Editrice S.p.A. 1999. FAENZA (RA)_Museo int.le delle ceramiche [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVMC@FAENZA%20(RA)_Museo%20int.le%20delle%20ceramiche&docID=1].
EMILIANIG. P.-CORBARA F., Ceramic Technology - Processing - Volume II. Faenza, Gruppo editoriale Faenza Editrice S.p.A., 1999. FAENZA (RA)_Museo int.le delle ceramiche [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVMC@FAENZA%20(RA)_Museo%20int.le%20delle%20ceramiche&docID=1].
FABBRI B.- RAVANELLI GUIDOTTI C.,Il restauro della ceramica.Firenze, Nardini Editore 1998.
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Department of Archaeology and History of the Arts, University of Siena, Introduction to the Study of Ceramics in Archaeology. Florence, Centro Editoriale Toscano sas - 2007. Downloadable PDF www.archeo.unisi.it
ORTON C. - TYER P. - VINCE A., Pottery in archaeology. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
RAVAGLIOLI A. - KRAJEWSKI A., Chimica fisica tecnica e scienza dei materiali antichi ceramici e vetrosi. International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza. Litografica Faenza 1989.
PEDELÌ C.. - APPOLONIA L., Cleaning techniques applied to ancient ceramics. Quaderni di Restauro della Ceramica(edited by Anna Maria Lega), Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza 1989. FAENZA (RA)_Museo int.le delle ceramiche [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVMC@FAENZA%20(RA)_Museo%20int.le%20delle%20ceramiche&docID=1].
PEDELÌ C. - PULGA S., Conservation Practices on Archaeological Excavation: Principles and Methods . 2.ed Borgo S. Lorenzo, All'Insegna del Giglio, 2010. SAVIGNANO (FC)_Museo Archeo. del Compito [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAV$PBMUSCOMPITO@SAVIGNANO%20(FC)_Museo%20Archeo.%20del%20Compito&docID=0].
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LEGA A. M., Una scheda per la catalogazione e il restauro dei prodotti ceramici: norme di compilazione (edited by Rino Casadio). Faenza, Tipografia faentina, after 1960.. FAENZA (RA)_Museo int.le delle ceramiche [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVMC@FAENZA%20(RA)_Museo%20int.le%20delle%20ceramiche&docID=1].
SPADOLA G., Il restauro con prodotti chimici. Rome, EPC Libri s.r.l. 2005.
SACCO F.- GRANATAT., Lachimica nel restauro. Dossier Legambiente, 2009.
CUOMO DI CAPRIO N.,Ceramics in acheology 2: ancient working techniques and modern methods of investigation. Rome, L' Erma di Bretschneider, 2007
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PICCOLPASSO C., Li tre libri dell'arte del vasai (Li tre libri dell'arte del vasai) (ed. a cura di G. Conti). Florence 1976
FIOCCO C. - GHERARDI G. - MORGANTI M. G. - Vitali M., Storia dell'arte ceramica. Bologna, Zanichelli, 1986. FAENZA (RA)_Biblioteca Manfrediana [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVFA@FAENZA%20(RA)_Biblioteca%20Manfrediana&docID=0]. , FAENZA (RA)_Museo int.le delle ceramiche [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVMC@FAENZA%20(RA)_Museo%20int.le%20delle%20ceramiche&docID=0]. , RAVENNA_Museo d'Arte della Citta' [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVMR@RAVENNA_Museo%20d%27Arte%20della%20Citta%27&docID=0].
Objects over time. Principles and techniques of preventive conservation,(ed. by the Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Emilia Romagna Region, Servizioa Musei e Beni Culturali). Edited by Isabella Fabbri IBACN, Coicom Bologna, 2007. RAVENNA_Biblioteca Classense, FAENZA (RA)_Museo int.le delle ceramiche [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVMC@FAENZA%20(RA)_Museo%20int.le%20delle%20ceramiche&docID=0].
LEGA A. M a cura di. Management and Care of Collections, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza 2005. Refresher course handout. Copyright 20015 MIC Faenza and Phase srl, Florence. FAENZA (RA)_Museo int.le delle ceramiche [http://opac.provincia.ra.it/SebinaOpac/Opac?action=inventory&bib=RAVMC@FAENZA%20(RA)_Museo%20int.le%20delle%20ceramiche&docID=5]
AGNINI E. and LEGA A.M. Il Restauro della Porcellana: Quaderni di Restauro della CeramicaN°3. Dispensa del corso di aggiornamento, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza 1999.
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Teaching methods

The teaching includes a theoretical part (carried out with examples, case studies, bibliographical studies) interfaced with the technical-practical activity of conservation and restoration.


Students intervene on archaeological and historical-artistic artefacts, carrying out documentation from the outset with increasingly complete and articulated methods as the course progresses (documentation by means of descriptive and analytical sheets, graphic and photographic surveys).


The study of artefacts and causes of degradation is carried out with the support of specific surveys and in synergy with the diagnostic laboratories


Safety in the laboratory is addressed transversally with the intervention of experts and, as far as chemical risk is concerned, with the involvement of the chemistry course.

Teaching tools

Activities in the laboratory, at archaeological sites or museums and on school sites.

Office hours

See the website of Ana Cecilia Hillar

See the website of Cristina Leoni

See the website of Silvia Ferucci

See the website of Silvia Ferucci