White '500 vs. brick '800: TG2 shows exclusive images of the restoration of the Vatican Belvedere

The first exclusive images of the restoration of the Vatican Belvedere were aired this evening on TG2 (service number 14 of the 8:30 p.m. edition of November 8, 2017: it can be seen on the TG2 website). The walls of the terrace, in particular, will lose their nineteenth-century brick color, and will be “repainted” with the original white that the walls had in the sixteenth century (this is how the terrace also appears in a landscape by Poussin preserved in the Louvre).

“The top of the Belvedere,” the director of the Vatican Museums, Barbara Jatta, told TG2, “is the Vatican’s most obvious emergency in the world after St. Peter’s Basilica. So it is a challenging restoration also because it is the image of the Vatican in the world.” The restoration is also being conducted through techniques of the time: images from TG2, concerning the Cortile della Pigna, already show, through a first essay, a kind of difference between “before and after.” It is a safe bet that these first images will cause much discussion.

White '500 vs. brick '800: TG2 shows exclusive images of the restoration of the Vatican Belvedere

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