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The archaeological site of the Roman Forum l District, which since its opening to the public in April 2012 has received 50,000 visitors, will at the end of July with a new incentive: a set of Roman paintings have been restored since Monday have begun to settle in the Atrium Building.
In the course of archaeological excavations carried out between the years 2008-2012 in the neighborhood of the Roman Forum (insula I) Pinwheel, recovered an important set of fragments of wall paintings from the noble area of the Atrium Building.
These paintings, once cataloged and studied, have been subjected to a restoration process that has included cleaning, consolidation and corresponding mounting puzzle, thanks to which it has determined the exact position of the pieces on your wall.
Thus, the restoration has been performed three mural cloths belonging to two different rooms.
The restoration work, funded and directed from the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, were awarded to the company INSITU and have embarked on a ship-store Cartagena Municipal Archaeological Museum, while his p et up in value has been funded by the city of Cartagena.
INSTALLATION PROCESS "N IN THE RESERVOIR
Once the puzzle reassembled fragments recovered, the final process of restoration and enhancement of the paintings has been the placement of the resulting compositions intervention on a layer of mortar of lime and sand with which adhere to a panel of Aerolamb.
Then he turns to these plates, are removed early engasado protections placed on the original painting and proceed to cleaning and reintegration volumetric entire panel.
Subsequently anchored metal pieces on the back of the panels so that they can hang on the metal structure prepared for this purpose.
T he final phase is carried out in the site itself, which are designed and manufactured metal structures that restore the walls that would house the décor and to be placed on the restored panels.
The Atrium Building, built in the late first century C. and interpreted as belonging to an association of private or semi-public, could be dedicated to convivial banquets in honor of a divinity, perhaps Eastern origin.
The building underwent several transformations between the first and third centuries AD One of the recovered pictorial panels remodeling comes from one of the banquet rooms of the building, datable to the second century AD It is a cloth from 3.40 m high by 3.40 m wide, consisting of a black skirting, plinth evocation of a composition with imitation marble, and consists of interpaneles middle red and green separated by a black interpaneles with figural decoration.
The other group of pictures belong to the upper floor of the building, specifically a room located on the main room open to the atrium on the north.
By not being able museumization in its original location, will be exposed in one of the rooms of the building service.
The set consists of two panels, arranged in L, about 4 m high by 2 m wide.
Composition is a network in which female masks evoke garlands wrapped vegetables.
Once pictorial panels made translated to? Atrio building and placed in their proper places, restorers continue for two weeks work.
NATIONAL AWARD AND VISITORS
Since opening in April last year, Cartagena Port of Cultures recorded nearly 50,000 visits to this site, which received the National Award for Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Property.
One of the reasons that the jury chose this project as the winner is the quality of multidisciplinary intervention.
The project also includes archaeological research, restoration of cultural property set musealization and dissemination, with an important component of social participation.
Other aspects taken into account by the jury were the comprehensive nature of the intervention, the contribution it makes to the urban rehabilitation and economic development in an urban area, as well as joint composition of the team that created the project.
The National Award for Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage was established in 1994 and since then is given annually by the Department of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Archives and Libraries of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, to persons or institutions that by their works or active participation in the field of restoration and conservation, contribute to enriching the cultural heritage of Spain.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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