The conference, structured over two days, is designed to introduce an increasingly broad audience to the technique of fresco painting, which after its birth in the Middle Eastern-Mediterranean area, few know has been mainly developed in Italy.

To immerse the audience in the subject, after the welcome, guests will be guided by Professor Isabella Pilo in a visit to the frescoes in the Basilica Church, among which one can admire the famous Last Supper with red shrimp. Many cultural associations in Italy and around the world are dedicated and still are to the protection of frescoes, to passing on the execution technique, and to recounting its millenary history.

The President of the International Association for Fresco Architect Tiziano Sartor will present the activities carried out both at the national and international level by the Feltrina association over more than ten years since its foundation.

Not many people know how to execute a fresco and what technical precautions need to be taken in order to do it properly.

Master Vico Calabrò will briefly illustrate how to execute it, presenting some notes on the technique of fresco painting compared to that of dry painting.

Another lesser-known topic is the cultural evolution that over the millennia has shown the Homo genre. The relationship that early humans had with painting and drawing involved the depiction with red earth of animals and graphic signs on the walls of the caves.

Dr. Prof. Renzo Barbazza will present an excerpt from the Atlas of Artists’ Works regarding the birth of the neuro-aesthetic relationship that individuals of the Homo genus had since prehistory with the vertical surface of the wall and its ornamentation.

Finally, another little-known topic concerns restoration techniques. Frescoes, in fact, not only survive thanks to a chemical reaction between lime and pigments but are often exposed to the elements or found in humid places.

Hence the very frequent need to maintain their freshness and to recover them when severely damaged.

Dr. Bernardo Molinas Agnellini will report on the restoration of frescoes and the Italian excellence that has produced the technique based on lime nanoparticles.

The conference will last 8 hours but there will be a lunch break for attendees from 12:00 to 14:00.

The event is free and open to the public.

For information, please send an email to pigmentiaps@gmail.com.

A series of lectures conducted by artists, professionals, and scholars on the history and technique of fresco.