February 21st , 2012 → 10:21 am @ Istruttore
Nikos Vakalis, Athens On Monday, 16th of January, the participants of the program “Athens: Heritage and Modernity” left the capital of Greece, going back to their countries: Australia, USA, UK… having spent a “full immersion” of 11 days following lectures, visiting museums, walking through archaeological findings, and covering almost 3.000 years of history that [...]
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September 29th , 2011 → 12:53 am @ Nikos Vakalis
IIRPS is introducing a new program taking place January 5-15, 2012. This 11 day visit of Athens focuses on the preservation and conservation issues facing the city. The program involves a series of lectures and visits to monuments, museums and significant city neighborhoods. These will be lead by Athenian architects, historians, conservators and planners who have [...]
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March 25th , 2011 → 4:47 pm @ Paul Mertz
San Gemini – Cultural Experiences: Over the last several years, during my work with the Preservation Program in San Gemini, I have frequently hiked in the mountains east of town. Last year I finally visited the Franciscan monastery located on the north end of the mountain ridge. Built originally around the 1100′s (?), the lone [...]
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March 25th , 2011 → 4:20 pm @ Nikos Vakalis
Nikos Vakalis, March 12, 2011 My stay in Iraq has reached its end. Yesterday I arrived in Athens, after 2 days of travel: from the base of Tallil to Baghdad, from the military airport of Baghdad to the «green zone» by helicopter, escorted by American militaries armed to the teeth. Then, the next day from [...]
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March 25th , 2011 → 2:55 pm @ Elena Raimondi
Cleaning is a crucial step in restoring. It allows us to discover the object often hidden under layers of deposits, sometimes firmly attached to the substrate. In case of archeological ceramic artifacts, these foreign matters are usually made of soil or calcareous/siliceous encrustations. The objects during the long period buried can absorb several kind of [...]
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March 1st , 2011 → 5:10 pm @ Nikos Vakalis
In 2008 I worked for more than one month in one of the most important museums of the world: the Archeological Museum of Cairo. This museum, which is absolutely the richest regarding Egyptian antiquities, is unfortunately also in the worst condition amongst the great museums. Broken windows permit the highly polluted atmosphere of Cairo to [...]
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March 1st , 2011 → 4:41 pm @ Konstantinos Choulis
Konstantinos Choulis Book & Paper Conservator Assistant Professor Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art Technological Educational Institute, Athens With the application of a new programme in the *Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art* (Technological Educational Institute, Athens) started in September 2010, the Conservation of Graphic works was introduced under [...]
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March 1st , 2011 → 12:26 am @ Nikos Vakalis
The excavation has been stopped temporarily. Over the last week several protests have taken place in Nassiryia so it has been judged unwise for us to leave the base. Fortunately we had collected enough material – bricks that, according to their condition, have been considered suitable to be reused for the restoration of the masonry [...]
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February 27th , 2011 → 11:46 am @ Nikos Vakalis
In the last couple of decades, China has made many efforts to update the methodological approach to the preservation of its vast cultural heritage. Many countries are contributing to support to these efforts and Italy, in addition to assisting in the restoration of specific monuments, has given an effective and very important contribution by creating [...]
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February 21st , 2011 → 11:38 am @ Elena Raimondi
I will be teaching the second part of the course “Introduction to Conservation of Archaeological Ceramic in Italy”. Classes and workshops will take place in a characteristic building located in the medieval core of San Gemini, the former Monastery of San Agostino. Following students’ suggestions, we will be focusing our attention on restoring and on [...]
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