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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As part of the PCTOs for schools, we are today at the Liceo Classico Terenzio Mamiani in Rome for the (re)reading room, a project based on the conservation and restoration of some volumes of the Terenzio Mamiani Fund preserved within the library of the institute. For the first time, students are confronted with the world […]

We love to share this video made by The Levantine Foundation on Deir al-Surian Monastery Conservation activities. In this 20-minute documentary giving an overview of the collection and details the Foundation’s role in its preservation as well as scholarly commentary on the different language collections: Coptic-Arabic, Syriac and Ethiopic. Thanks to Elizabeth Sobczynski, CEO The […]