Padua, new lighting for St. George's Oratory.

TheOratory of St. George, overlooking the churchyard of the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua, will undergo a true visual restoration, thanks to the project promoted by the Veneranda Arca di Sant’Antonio with the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo: a new technologically advanced lighting system will be implemented in the coming months that will allow visitors to better appreciate the 14th-century frescoes by Altichiero da Zevio.

The current lighting system will be replaced by state-of-the-art LED projectors with very high color rendering and the ability to determine the gradation of white best suited to enhance the colors of the frescoes, as well as to provide lighting that ensures color durability and visual comfort. The system will be implemented by iGuzzini illuminazione spa.

The Oratory of St. George will be the first of the UNESCO candidate sites to adopt the same lighting system as the Scrovegni Chapel, helping to relaunch the idea of a shared lighting system for the sites involved in the candidacy.

“The Basilica of St. Anthony,” says Emanuele Tessari, Chief President of the Venerable Ark of St. Anthony, “has a very significant presence in the UNESCO candidacy process, which is facing the final and most severe months of international evaluation. Every concrete act that shows the city’s interest in the candidate sites, including the Oratory of St. George, becomes an important indicator of the involvement of the whole community. The new lighting will also make it possible to revive on the tourism level the visit to the site with a positive spin-off in the entire southern part of the city.”

For more information: www.arcadelsanto.org

Pictured is a view of St. George’s Oratory.

Padua, new lighting for St. George's Oratory.

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