THE RESTYLING
twelve o’clock, June 19, 2021 – 3:59 pm
Antonio Forcellino is working on 19th century frescoes and wooden inlays
It is not every day that one of the most important Italian restorers, known worldwide, is committed to restoring a town hall to its ancient splendor. It happens in Vietri sul Mare, just outside Salerno, and the restorer in question is the architect Antonio Forcellino, an expert on the Italian Renaissance, who in the past has given new life to prestigious works by Michelangelo Buonarroti and Raffaello Sanzio. Forcellino did not think twice when the mayor Giovanni De Simone asked him to intervene in the council chamber which, thanks to the nineteenth century frescoes and the wooden inlays, was considered one of Vietri’s masterpieces until the 1980 earthquake. Armed with a small brush between his fingers and at the top of a ladder, with a lamp that casts a beam of light on the work to be redeveloped, Forcellino has made his well-known art available to the community not only among professionals. Animated not only by a great passion by a personal and emotional reason: right here, in Vietri sul Mare, he was born sixty-five years ago. “These frescoes were a nice discovery and it is the first time that I have the feeling of doing something for my children, grandchildren and those who will come – said the artist in dialogue with the journalist Vito Pinto – It is a work that gives me a double satisfaction. And then it’s a job for this country that saw me born ». The council chamber of the Municipality of Vietri sul Mare will shine again thanks to a loan of 200 thousand euros obtained through the Gal «Terra e Vita».
June 19, 2021 | 15:59
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