2017/2018

2019/2020

DM270

ICAR/19 (RESTORATION)

DEPARTMENT OF MUSICOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

1st semester (23/09/2019 - 15/01/2020)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

MARAMOTTI ANNA LUCIA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Resumption of the topics discussed in the module - A and simultaneous application to violin making.
"Argumented" knowledge of the main recurring terms in the field of restoration and conservation. Comparison between "lute-making" and "conservation of stringed instruments", between aesthetics and philosophy of history; comparison between the function of use and the historical-cultural identity of the instrument.

The awareness of the testimonial value of the instrument is declined starting from its function of use and safeguarding its historical-cultural identity. The path is identified through a research aimed at identifying the complexity of the instrument (holistic system) with respect to the restoration intervention, to the definition of violin making as an expression of art and historical testimony with respect to itself, to music and culture. Search for a "method" congruent with the musical instrument and to the intervention project. Argumentation of the historical and epistemological limits of research.

Approach and development of restoration in Cremona in the 20th century.
The Carta del Restauro del 1987.
The Violin Making between "Material Culture" and "Non Material Culture".
Reflection on the specificity of the preservation of musical instruments starting from the main theories of 20th century restoration.
Reflection on the specificity of the preservation of musical instruments starting from the main theories of philosophy of art and philosophy of history.
From the luthier making to the conservative restoration.
The contribution of human sciences to the restoration project.
The contribution of experimental and analytical sciences to the restoration project.
The fundamentals of conservation theorizing.
The reasons why violin making is an art.Il rapporto con le altre arti.
The concept of technique.
The intelligence of the hand.
Comparison with the methods and theories of the restoration of other artefacts.
The sound problem (timbre) in the instrument restoration approach.
The contributions of Italian and foreign experiences related to the restoration of bowed instruments will be the object of a research.

Frontal lessons. Debate to identify what was really understood during the lessons.
Comparison between the different forms of art and culture (subject to restoration interventions) and the art of violin making.
The student will be asked to report any problem of understanding during the lesson. Similarly, the student must report the difficulties encountered. The aim is to be able to provide concrete support to the study.

La carta del restauro di Cremona del 1987.
Anna L. Maramotti Politi and Enrico Ravina (ed. by), Fondamenti per lo studio della Liuteria, Per una metodologia di salvaguardia e restauro dei Beni Liutari, Edizioni della Laguna, 2016.
Anna L. Maramotti Politi and Enrico Ravina (ed. by), Saper Fare Liutario, Edizioni della Laguna, 2017.
Amedeo Bellini, Anna Lucia Maramotti Politi and Enrico Ravina (ed. by), Revisione, Aggiornamenti,Integrazioni alla Carta di Cremona del 1987, Cremona, 2018.
The teacher will deliver a copy of the texts indicated to the Department’s library.

Exercises, oral exam.

Since in the CFU system the frequency is an integral part of the training course, the students unable to attend the lectures are invited to contact as soon as possible the teacher for the necessary complements to the program.