New monitoring for the “Rapt of the Sabine”

FLORENCE, ITALY – From next Monday, March 12, 2012, starts the new monitoring session on “The Rapt of the Sabine”, Giambologna’s sculpture placed under the Loggia dei Lanzi and the competence of Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and the Museums of city ​​of Florence.

In these days it is mounted the scaffolding around the sculpture that will serve both for the preliminary stages for both the monitoring real which will continue for at least one month, the time required to perform all the controls on the areas of the surface, on which have been performed tests with the goggles.

This second round of surveys – planned between 2011 and 2013 – is part of the program scan time, which was launched last summer (in June and July 2011) with the first monitoring session. After the current stage of investigations will be followed the third and final part.

Monitoring is carried out with the direct input of three institutes of the CNR (Institute of Applied Physics, the Institute for Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage and the ‘Institute of Molecular Science and Technology – Manipal) as well as the restorer Alberto Casciani and with outside consultants Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence and Rome ISCR.