Starting tomorrow, follow us in Vignola with #tracksinlight for the reopening of the Rock Brush Tower!

Reopening tomorrow, after restoration and consolidation work, is the Torre del Pennello of the Fortress of Vignola, the ancient castle that dominates this village on the edge of the Modena Apennines. For the occasion, the Fondazione di Vignola, which owns the Rocca and financed the restoration work, has organized the event Tutti i colori del Pennello, a series of events to celebrate the reopening of the tower and the end of the work: just tomorrow there will be theinauguration, and it will get off to a great start with the opening of Tracce in luce, the exhibition that intends to document the research work that enabled the restoration of the Tower and the reconstruction of the exterior decoration of the Rocca.

Vignola Fortress

The exhibition has a twofold objective: the first is scientific, because thanks to the exhibition, the results of the research of the restorers who worked in the Rocca will be made known, managing, as restorer Natalia Gurgone, who conceived the project, to “acquire a detailed documentation of the frescoes, fundamental for decoding the decorative apparatus of the Rocca,” as restorer Natalia Gurgone, who conceived the project, puts it. An objective also achieved with the use of cutting-edge technologies such as three-dimensional laser scanners and drones, the latter used for the first time in order to acquire very high-definition images of the decorative elements of a fortress, without therefore having to resort to the use of scaffolding. The second objective, on the other hand, is purely informative: the exhibition’s audience will have the opportunity to learn how a study campaign is carried out in preparation for a restoration and will also have the chance to understand the importance that a public decorative apparatus, such as that of the walls of the Fortress of Vignola, held for the population. Also for this reason, from tomorrow evening until September 12, that is, for the entire duration of All the Colors of the Brush (excluding September 7 and 10), there will be video projections at 9 p.m. showing the reconstructed frescoes on the surfaces of the building.

Detail of a frieze from the exterior decorations of the Fortress of Vignola

Windows on Art will be present at the event: in fact, our Federico Giannini will be in Vignola to accompany you along a two-day art and culture event, which you can conveniently follow with the hashtag #tracceinluce on our Facebook page and Twitter account. The program is really rich: we will start tomorrow at lunchtime (and then Federico will take you to an acetaia... after all, we are in the province of Modena!), then straight to Vignola to visit the historic center and to follow the inauguration of All the Colors of the Brush and Traces in Light, in the presence of Valerio Massimo Manfredi, who is President of the Vignola Foundation, and the authorities. This will be followed by a debate on the issues of innovation in the field of cultural heritage, which will be moderated by Marco Carminati of Il Sole 24 Ore and where, among others, critic Philippe Daverio, the curator of Tracce in luce Natalia Gurgone, and architect Carla Di Francesco, of the regional directorate of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, will speak. After the debate, we will visit the Brush Tower and finally, at 9 p.m., attend video projections on the walls of the Rocca.

Lots of art also on Sunday, October 6: in the morning we will make an in-depth visit to Traces in Light (remember that the exhibition is free admission and will last until October 18) and visit the well-known Palazzo Contrari-Boncompagni, also known as Palazzo Barozzi: it is famous because it was designed by one of the greatest architects of the 16th century, Jacopo Barozzi, known as the Vignola as he was originally from the Emilian town, who left, among other things, the famous spiral staircase in the Palazzo. After lunch we will finally take you to visit Castelvetro di Modena, another characteristic village not far from Vignola.

The helicoidal staircase of Palazzo Barozzi

We will not fail, of course, to offer you pictures and information about the Fortress of Vignola, which has very ancient origins as it was supposedly built in the eighth century AD as a defensive bulwark against Hungarian invasions. Its current appearance derives from renovations begun in the 15th century that made it the residence of the Contrari family, which owned the fief of Vignola and gravitated around the Este family of Ferrara. The Fortress of Vignola is one of the best preserved castles in our country, not least because the interior decorations, of great artistic interest and a living testimony to the culture of the Contrari family, are in excellent condition.

The appointment is therefore for this weekend, and we remind you that the hashtag to follow us on this journey of discovery of Vignola, its Rocca and its surroundings is #tracceinluce. In the meantime, to find out the full program of All the Colors of the Paintbrush, you can visit the event’s official website, and to follow updates we recommend a like to the Fortress of Vignola Facebook page. See you tomorrow!

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