Wall painting restoration, work in progress

We have started a new project in S. Agostino church in Cava Manara, few kilometers from Pavia, cooperating with "Alba Restauri" company.

After having restored, in previous years, apse frescoes, we have settled a new scaffold in this XVIII century church, caracterized for having an octagonal plan.
We are now looking for old decorations, covered during centuries by new colours, the last one applied 50 years ago: in last works we have found lots of decorations, belonging to the original project, dated back to II half of 1700 and realized by painters who worked for the local noble family.

Vault paintings represent some moments of S. Agostino life, they are recent (beginning of 1900) and locally damaged by water infiltration from the roof, now repaired. An additional problem was caused by candle smoke, which originated during one century a flatten black film.

After testing we'll start restoring the vault. Keep in touch with us for the updatings!