Starting date: 01/09/08.
Date of completion of work: 17/12/08
Client. PARROCCHIA DEI SANTI FILIPPO E GIACOMO in Cortina D’Ampezzo, represented by the Deacon Don Davide
Fiocco.
Designer: Arch. Ghedini Gianluca.
Company to carry out works: Dottor Group SpA.
Coordinator for Security: Arch. Gianluca Ghedini.
Location: VIA DEL MERCATO 12 - 32042 CORTINA D'AMPEZZO (BL) .
The building is located in the central area of Cortina, on the shelf from the current Via Cesare Battisti and Corso Italy
History of the factory.
The first document which it finds the church D'Ampezzo is 1208. Several other sources from 1300 to accredit as one of
the most important of Cadore. The original church was enlarged several times in the centuries to come: the first significant
intervention is dated 1576-77, then in 1769 was the decision to broaden the two aisles. The plant stands, with one nave,
was completed in 1775 around the old building, which was preserved only the altar, until it was possible to celebrate the
new features, made of 1773 from Mussack jr, wood stuccolusto decorated. The murals of the nave, is the time of the wall,
and dating back to the same era, were entrusted to the painter Franz Anton Zeiler, while popular in the Tyrol.
Starting from 1928 the church was the subject of numerous restorations, from the cover sheet coated copper, the addition
of two portichetti the inputs side, the decorations of plaster, the total resurfacing of the pavement. During the excavations
came to light as the remains of the three previous churches, and a large central crypt with numerous human remains
inside.
In 1974, during the bicentennial, the course had an impressive work of restoration of the frescoes, paintings and altars,
as well as cleaning and rehabilitation of the building and upgrading plant.
Intervention
Type of intervention.
Preservative restoration work on the internal facings of the nave started again on 1 September ’08 and the first phase
consisted of restoring the outdoor worksite area and supervising the erection of wheeled scaffolding to enable us to work
first on one half and then the other of the church, running the tracks along the nave.
Like in the previous phase, the work will involve restoration of the internal decorations, including the neutral and decorated
plasterwork and the murals, frescoed with dry finish, of which there are many both on the vault and at the sides of the main
door. Special scaffolding will be erected for work on restoring the two murals on the walls of the apse, after mapping of
their deterioration and testing the materials constituting them.
On the basis of scientific tests of fragments of plaster and of thermographic analyses of all the surfaces, the plasterwork
will be dry cleaned, using soft brushes and wishab rubber; this will be followed, where necessary, by in-depth reinforcement of the plasterwork, injecting grout compatible with its constituents, and of the cantinella strip false ceilings, even with
concealed nails. The many cracks will be checked and then reinforced and filled in. The next step will be to restore the
parts of the paintwork where the decorative film is found to be coming away and plaster them so as to give the decorations
a uniform appearance.
The external windows will be restored, and the electrical system will be replaced and modernised with tubes and
lights.The work will be completed by 13 December 2008, and the worksite completely cleared.