White marble and Ribarroja stone are the stone materials employed for the columns, the balustrade and the façades of the cloister of the Real Colegio Seminario of Corpus Christi in Valencia (1586-1611) also called Colegio del Patriarca. The state of conservation of the marble elements of the balustrade is more critical than that of the columns. The lack of data concerning the type and provenance of the marble from both the balustrade and the columns and its chemical-physical characteristics, has probably been the cause of wrong interpretations and wrong choices adopted in the restoration works executed in the 1980s. The data reported in this paper are the preliminary results of an interdisciplinary study based on the analysis of the archival sources and on the diagnostic investigations performed on the constituent materials. The gathered data allowed us to define the provenance of the marble (Carrara, Italy) and to establish the main causes of decay of the elements of the cloister.

The white marble of the cloister of the Real College-Seminar of Corpus Christi in Valencia (Spain): archival researches for de identification of its provenance and diagnostic studies for understanding its decay

CANNOLETTA, MARGHERITA;
2018-01-01

Abstract

White marble and Ribarroja stone are the stone materials employed for the columns, the balustrade and the façades of the cloister of the Real Colegio Seminario of Corpus Christi in Valencia (1586-1611) also called Colegio del Patriarca. The state of conservation of the marble elements of the balustrade is more critical than that of the columns. The lack of data concerning the type and provenance of the marble from both the balustrade and the columns and its chemical-physical characteristics, has probably been the cause of wrong interpretations and wrong choices adopted in the restoration works executed in the 1980s. The data reported in this paper are the preliminary results of an interdisciplinary study based on the analysis of the archival sources and on the diagnostic investigations performed on the constituent materials. The gathered data allowed us to define the provenance of the marble (Carrara, Italy) and to establish the main causes of decay of the elements of the cloister.
2018
Dialogues en Cultural Heritage. Book of abstracts of the VI international conference Yococu, Matera 22-26 may 2018
Colegio del Patriarca, Carrara marble, restoration works, diagnostic campaign
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