Recanati e Restauro,
Cultural Heritage Enhancement
and Conservation Classes
in Recanati
Summer Class
View all ->Our summer courses offer intensive training in book and paper conservation, led by international experts. Held in Recanati, these programs offer an immersive learning experience for professional growth in the field of conservation.
Summer Class
Summer Class 2025: Minimum Intervention, Conservation Techniques
Held by Giovanni PaganiValeria Di Capizzi
A three-week course for practicing conservators is to engage with the theories, approaches, and techniques of minimum intervention, focusing on historical awareness and research-based decision-making. We will take no more than 8 students to ensure enough individual time with the instructor.
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Courses
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Summer Class 2024: Minimum Intervention, Conservation Techniques
Held by Giovanni PaganiValeria Di Capizzi
A three-week course for practicing conservators is to engage with the theories, approaches, and techniques of minimum intervention, focusing on historical awareness and research-based decision-making. We will take no more than 8 students to ensure enough individual time with the instructor.
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Summer Class 2022: Craft and conservation of Oriental books
Held by Sherif Afifi
The course focuses on the craft of traditional Islamic and Coptic books and bindings, including conservation and preservation techniques. The lessons will be divided into theoretical and practical components, with a stress on the application of skills. The theoretical component will explore the structure of Oriental books, and their history and evolution in order to […]
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16th Century Archival / Stationery Bindings
Held by Giovanni Pagani
Archival bindings, within the wide world of historical book structures, are very unique, and must be carefully analysed to be fully understood. Their creation and use are very different: they were ‘living’ structures, meant to grow (letters, new sections and parts added along many years), and not born as distinct defined codicological units like printed […]
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View All ->We believe in an international, intersectional and cross-cultural approach to the conservation of documentary heritage worldwide. We collaborate with professionals globally to advance our mission in collaborative knowledge-building in conservation.
Conservation of manuscripts and capacity building in Gaza
This project was initiated an international collaboration, with team members from Palestine, Italy, and India, who all believed that the conservation of cultural heritage needs to take into consideration and highlight endangered cultures and communities. Documentary heritage is a pillar of cultural continuity – and it is often the most fragile. When Muneer Elbaz (UCAS […]
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Preserving the Past, Safeguarding the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage at Risk in Gaza through restoration and community Engagement
Recanati e Restauro is honoured to be collaborating with CISS Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud and UCAS – University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza, on this important project supported by a generous grant from the British Council Cultural protection Fund. This project started with a small cultural emergency grant from The Prince Claus Fund during […]
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The Levantine Foundation – Safeguarding Egyptian Cultural Heritage through preservation, conservation and digitisation. Online training project
The consolidated partnership between the Levantine Foundation, project promoter, and Recanati e Restauro saw us among the protagonists of this 4th Training Program for heritage professionals, librarians of monastic collections and university students which involved 206 delegates from all over the world. The programme was supported and financed by The British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund, […]
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Show more ->Recanati e Restauro collaborates with an international network of cultural partners, including practitioners, museums and universities, to offer high quality training programs. We integrate multidisciplinary expertise, and promote innovative projects and solutions for the protection and enhancement of heritage.
Recanati e Restauro is a non-profit social enterprise in the heart of Recanati, dedicated to book and paper conservation, and the protection of cultural heritage. We engage in conservation activities for libraries, archives, museums and private collections. Our vision fosters cultural dialogue, by engaging in international projects, and collaborating with cultural institutions worldwide.
- ->The Levantine Foundation
- ->British Council
- ->The Barakat Trust
- ->Prince Claus Fund
- ->CISS Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud
- ->UCAS University College of Applied Sciences Gaza
- ->Deir al-Surian Monastery
- ->Comune di Recanati
- ->Liceo Classico Statale Giacomo Leopardi, Recanati
- ->Liceo Classico Statale Terenzio Mamiani, Roma
- ->Sismel
News
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The 2024 Summer Class begins
Great excitement in our studio! Our Summer Class 2024 dedicated to the intensive Minimum Intervention – Conservation Techniques course begins. This year our class is made up of students from Australia, Argentina, Mexico, China, Greece and Portugal. On this first day we showed our students the environments in which we will spend these three weeks […]
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Conservation Field Campaign: 15 September – 8 October 2023
A three-week restoration campaign focused on the conservation of manuscripts from the Syriac, Arabic and Coptic collection began last Friday, September 15, organized by the Levantine Foundation and managed by Elizabeth Sobczynski, CEO of the foundation, in partnership with Recanati and Restauro and generously sponsored by John Osborn and Nigel Pilkington. The objective is to […]
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The Books in art in Recanati
The third edition of The Books in art project in Recanati concludes. This year too, the students of the G. Leopardi Classical High School in Recanati gave their all in creating prototypes of ancient bindings, inspired by Renaissance depictions. This year’s prototype takes up the second precious volume depicted in the splendid Polyptych by Lorenzo […]
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Located in historical Recanati in the heart of the Marche region, our work is located at a place central to book, paper, archival, and manuscript legacies and heritage.
The physical and virtual place to promote antique book restoration and stimulate relationships among professionals. Get in touch!
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