La Resurrezione by Pericle Fazzini in the Aula Paolo VI at the Vatican. The restoration of contemporary art by sacred multi-disciplinary dimensions

The preservative restoration of the great work of Pericle Fazzini (1913-1987), entitled La Resurrezione in the Aula Paolo VI at the Vatican, has involved the workers of the Fonderia Del Giudice (Nola), and (for free) the authors of this paper, as researchers of the Faculty Architecture “Luigi Vanvitelli” and of the Benecon Research Center, for over seventy days.. The University contribution was orientated towards the scientific project of its conservation and restoration, as well as providing a repertoire of diagnostic tests that have supported the intervention protocol, appropriately designed, applied by the Foundry and confirmed by the Directorate of the Vatican Museums and Laboratories.. The essays describe the multidisciplinary methodology, analytical operations as well as techniques that have marked all the development and implementation phases of the preservative restoration, from concept to project, from shipyard to communication. At the same time, particular attention was given to the spectacular architectural space designed by Pier Luigi Nervi.. In line with the Tenth Forum topics, the work was inspired by the minimal intervention – remote analysis and non-invasive interventions – accurately planned, for the best expected result, that has returned the dazzling image to the statue as Pericle Fazzini has realized in a mixed alloy of bronze and brass. The work has also provided material and structural integrity of the articulated metallic mass.