Florence, start monitoring the ceiling of the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio

Work has begun in Florence to monitor the ceiling and architectural elements of the Salone dei Cinquecento in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, which will undergo a conservation overhaul. Already this morning restorers were at work on the Vasari paintings, 20 meters above the ground. The project, by the City’s Fine Arts Service and financed thanks to a liberal disbursement from the Pramac company as part of the Florence I care plan, will last for six months, and the museum will remain open.

The work, specifically, is aimed at verifying the state of preservation of the wooden panels painted by Giorgio Vasari, the stone or stucco architectural elements and the stone or stucco surfaces that characterize the decorative architectural apparatus of the Salone dei Cinquecento and adjoining monumental rooms, and to carry out the removal of the inconsistent deposits present. It starts with a cognitive scientific survey from which a punctual mapping of the state of conservation will be carried out. The intervention will also include the securing of detached fragments held or not held by metal restraints or close to the detachment of stringcourses and/or ornate surfaces of stone or stucco architectural elements, and, in the case that the operation does not present executive difficulties related to the state of preservation of the artifact, the reattachment of the fragment will be carried out.

“Forty years after the last intervention of this kind,” says Mayor Dario Nardella, “we are returning to take a closer look at the beauty of the coffered ceiling commissioned by Vasari and decorated with the apotheosis of Cosimo I, by his own hand together with other famous painters of the time such as Giovanni Stradano, Santi di Tito and Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio. This public-private collaboration initiated many years ago with the Florence I care project allows us to continue to care for our most precious cultural assets and restore them to their former glory.”

“An important close monitoring operation kicks off with the aim of better assessing the conservation of the architectural elements of such a precious place as the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, for an always optimal use of these spaces by visitors,” says Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Culture Alessia Bettini. “Once again thanks to the synergy between public and private we are going to intervene to protect our historical and artistic heritage.”

Florence, start monitoring the ceiling of the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio

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