Visualize and understand the Carracci Gallery through its critical fortune, conservation and restoration. Seventeenth to twenty-first century. – Carracciconservart

This research project in heritage sciences proposes to process and analyze the unpublished documentation gathered during the last restoration of the Carrara Gallery in the Farnese Palace conducted between 2013 and 2015, whose data will be examined for the first time and complemented by the in-depth study of the critical fortune of the work. For the Baroque period, the Carracci Gallery played a role comparable to that of the Sistine Chapel in the Renaissance, that of a model to which all artists referred: knowledge of the techniques used by the Carracci family in the Farnese Palace is therefore essential for understanding the transformations that took place on this site and that determined a large part of the evolution of painting in Rome and, subsequently, in all of Europe from the 17th century onwards. The project allows for an optimal study thanks to the involvement of those involved in the restoration, the research laboratories that have been associated with it, and the availability of the results of this work through a database. To do this, restorers, Technical Art Historians, scientists, art historians, historians and architects are called upon to work in synergy.