UNA’ METODOLOGIA PER ‘UN’ RESTAURO: INDAGINI, INTERVENTI E MONITORAGGI SULLE FACCIATE IN LATERIZIO DELLE CHIESE BENEDETTINE DI SAN GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA IN PARMA E DI SANTA MARIA DELLA NEVE A TORRECHIARA (PR).

Marina Ferrari1, Mariangela Giusto2, Alessandro Larghi3, Nadia Montevecchi4, Cristina Quagliotti5, Giovanni Signani6, Barbara Zilocchi7

1 Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Parma e Piacenza, marina.ferrari@beniculturali.it

2Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici Artistici ed Etnoantropologici di Parma e Piacenza, mariangela.giusto@beniculturali.it

3Esedra Restauri s.n.c., info@esedrarestauri.it

4Archeologa  - Dedalo s.a.s, dedarc@libero.it

5Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici Artistici ed Etnoantropologici di Parma e Piacenza, maria.quagliotti@beniculturali.it

6Architetto libero professionista, email: info@archirestauro.it; siarch@libero.it

7Architetto libero professionista, info@archirestauro.it; barbara.zilocchi@archiworld.it.

ABSTRACT 

Recently developed studies demonstrated that Santa Maria della Neve Abbey (Torrechiara, Parma), put up in the second half of XVth century, was built on a pre-existent and complex structure. Moreover, the building process lasted until the XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries.

A similar historical stratification of the building process could be assumed even in S. Giovanni Evangelista Church (Parma).

Aiming point of this study is to demonstrate that the required restoration works could be respectful of the historical phases characterizing the development of the whole complex by putting together, on the one hand several diagnostics and, on the other, different processing techniques.

The diagnostic method is based on a careful survey campaign, performed both with traditional technique and with archaeological systems, that allows a complete report of the elapsing time effects on the material framework and of the historical evolution of the building.

The following step is the definition of a restoration methodology according to the survey's outcomes. In a few circumstances, jointly with traditional techniques, new generation chemical products (nanotechnologies) are used.

All the results of this work are collected in the “Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali” web based system SICAR.

Keywords: restoration, diagnostics, archaeological systems, abbey, church, nanotechnologies, sicar.