The course aims to provide students with the appropriate tools to intervene on the supports of wooden artifacts in the most suitable way by carrying out a restoration project starting from the phenomenologies of degradation.
Within the module, the main intervention techniques (plastic reintegration, wedge restoration, elastic restraint systems) will be illustrated both from a theoretical point of view, with examples and case studies, and from a practical point of view through practice on models and then on the artifacts available in the laboratory.

The program is divided into a theoretical part (15 hours) and a practical part (110 hours), with sumodels and artwork exercises.

1. THEORETICAL PART.

1.1_Theory and techniques for the rehabilitation of wood supports (5 hours)

1.2_retaining structures for painted boards: parquetry and elastic systems (5 hrs.)

1.3_Methods for reinstating support gaps (5 hrs.)

2. PRACTICAL PART.

2.1_Practical exercise on models: structural rehabilitation, execution of clefts and wedges. (20 hours)

2.2_Practical exercise on models and artwork: plastic reinstatement of gaps in wooden support
with linden laths (20 hrs.)

2.3_Making silicone casts for reconstruction of modular or repetitive elements (10 hours)

2.4_Practical laboratory activities on works of art (60 hours)

Each section can be attended having followed the previous one with at least 75% attendance and in the following order:

Section 1.1

Section 1.2

Section 1.3

Section 1.4

D1

Upon completion of the First Year Laboratory Course, the Student shall have acquired all those theoretical knowledge essential to:

- recognition of the materials and execution techniques of an artifact on a wooden support (paintings, sculptures, furniture and various artifacts);

- recognition of the causes of degradation of the wooden support and the layers above it;

- identification of techniques and materials for support consolidation and restoration operations, and fixation and consolidation of pictorial layers.

D2

Upon completion of the First-Year Laboratory Course, the Student must demonstrate the ability to :

- recognize the quality of wood species: homoxyl wood and heteroxyl wood (also in collaboration with other Courses);

- recognize the techniques of making supports (assemblage, construction, carving);

- recognize the different decorative techniques and the materials used to make them;

- identify the causes of degradation of the wooden artifact;

- identify the methodology and materials to be used for intervention on both the support and the overlying layers.

D3

Upon completion of the First Year Laboratory Course, the Student will have acquired:

- ability to use research methodologies appropriate to the problems to be addressed

- ability to know how to evaluate different working hypotheses to address different intervention cases.

D4

At the end of the First Year Laboratory Course the Student should be able to:

- formulate and argue a conservation intervention project on the support and on the preparatory and pictorial layers of the wooden artifact.

D5

At the end of the First-Year Laboratory Course the Student should be able to:

- independently find and organize all scientific and bibliographical information related to the materials and execution techniques of a wooden artifact.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching materials prepared by the lecturer(s) in addition to the recommended texts (such as slides, handouts, exercises, bibliography) and lecturer's communications specific to the teaching are available within the Moodle platform ' blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Lectures and exercises-practical and laboratory.

Attendance

Attendance at restoration laboratory activities is compulsory; absences are allowed for no more than 25 percent of the total number of hours related to the Laboratory attended and no more than 25 percent of the total number of hours of each individual section of the relevant laboratory. A record of attendance is provided. Attendance in the Restoration Laboratories is subject to the acquisition of certificates related to the Safety courses as indicated in the Restoration Laboratories Regulations.

Course books

G. Pieresca, Il legno e l’arte di costruire mobilie serramenti, Hoepli
G. Giordano, Tecnologia del legno, vol. I, UTET, Torino 1981
E. Scott, Lavorare il legno. Attrezzi, metodi, materiali, ebanisteria classica, Zanichelli, Bologna 1983
R. Bruce Hoadley, Understanding Wood: A Craftsman's Guide to Wood Technology, The Taunton press, 2000
G. B. Fidanza, N. Macchioni (a cura di), Statue di legno. Caratteristiche tecnologiche e formali delle specie legnose, Atti del seminario di studi Perugia 1-2 aprile 2005, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma 2008
L. Speranza, Metodologie e problematiche nel restauro della scultura lignea, in A. M. Spiazzi,
L. Majoli (a cura di), Atti della giornata di studio, Belluno 14 gennaio 2005, Silvana, Milano 2007, pp. 11-24
G. Canocchi, M. C. Gigli, M.D. Mazzoni, P. Stiberc, La lacuna nella scultura lignea. Problematiche di intervento, in Lacuna. Riflessioni sulle esperienze dell’Opificio delle Pietre
Dure, Atti dei convegni del 7 aprile 2002 e del 5 aprile 2003, Edifir, Firenze 2004, pp. 131- 135
M. Parri, C. Roquefeuil, L. Speranza, L’angelo custode di Tovo Faraldi: un problematico esempio di integrazione lignea, in OPD Restauro, n. 15, Centro Di, Firenze 2003
 

Assessment

1. Examination test in oral form on the topics covered in the lectures to assess the student's communication skills.

2. Practical exercise: execution on a model of a structural restoration technique/execution technique to be carried out in a maximum of 4h, in order to assess the students' practical skills.

After attending at least 75% of each individual laboratory section, the student will be allowed to take the relevant partial examination during the official examination sessions.

The individual section grade is made up as follows:
50% of the section grade is given by the evaluation of the practical work done in the laboratory;
25% of the section grade is given by the evaluation of the oral examination;
25% of the section grade is given by the evaluation of the practical exercise.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.