Stabiae, Polish restoration team unearths decorations from Villa Ariadne

As part of an ongoing restoration campaign at Villa Ariadne in ancient Stabiae, a group of restorers from theWarsaw Academy of Fine Arts returned to the villa for the fourth consecutive year and unearthed some important decorations from the villa’s rooms. The working group, led by the deputy dean of the Polish Academy’s Faculty of Conservation and Restoration, Krzysztof Chmielewski, and Professor Julia Burdajewicz, cleaned the wall decorations in Room 7 (a room directly overlooking the sea), bringing to light some elements that were previously barely perceptible: among the uncovered decorations was a basket suspended from a faux coffered decorated ceiling. Also in room 7, Polish restorers brought back the original color of the walls and made some decorations that were previously barely visible much more visible.

Again, in room 11, the walls, which were in danger of flaking off, were consolidated and then cleaned, conducted with both compresses and technical tools that have begun to reveal considerable pictorial evidence. Meanwhile, the work of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts is proceeding and has yielded important results from a conservation point of view.

Pictured are two restorers from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts at work in Room 7 of Villa Ariadne.

Stabiae, Polish restoration team unearths decorations from Villa Ariadne

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