After almost a year, the restoration work carried out on the facades of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Perugia, which began in July 2021, was
completed. The interventions that benefited from the so-called "Facade Bonus" were carried out thanks to the financial support of the Brunello Foundation and Federica Cucinelli and Plenitude, a company controlled by Eni.
The restoration - explains who carried it out - was carried out with "rigorous adherence" to the original architectural structure of 1437 and had such a conservative character as to restore the facades of the Perugian Cathedral to the ancient splendor given to them by the stone master Bartolomeo di Mattiolo.
ANSA agency
Cucinelli, preserving monuments we preserve ourselves - Umbria
"I have always liked to think that by conserving our monuments we preserve, in some ways, ourselves, and we lay the foundations of our future": as Brunello Cucinelli said when speaking of the restoration of the cathedral of Perugia.
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The interventions, including the cleaning done with techniques that respect the material, involved the raised brick part, the three aedicules, the wooden Crucifix sculpted by Polidoro Ciburri, the Madonna della Provvidenza made by Pagno di Lapo Portigiani with the sculpture that is due to Aroldo Bellini and that of the Madonna della Consolazione, the Carrara marble pulpit, the monumental portal of the eastern façade designed by Pietro Carattoli and the one on Piazza IV Novembre by Galeazzo Alessi, the Loggia di Braccio, including the coat of arms and corbels of the fifth span , the bronze statue of Pope Julius III, the work of Giulio Danti and his son Vincenzo, the bell tower, the ornamental walls in Assisi stone, the bases (including that of the bell tower), the seat and the staircase in travertine,the brick chapel of the baptistery, the portal of the Jubilee, the mirrors of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, the mullioned windows and the three-light windows, the windows and the rose window.
In addition to the consolidation of the parts in "critical conditions", an accurate treatment was carried out aimed at stopping the degradation which, due to atmospheric agents and other corrosion factors of the limestone and arenite stones, had extended over time Significantly.
Everything was conducted on the basis of the most up-to-date operational methodology of the restoration, also thanks to repeated, targeted preliminary investigations and dedicated test samples.
