Tra storia e restauro. La polvere del cantiere

Between history and restoration. Dust from the worksite

From the educational to the professional experience in the Soprintendenze, the author has always taken an interest in history and restoration. This paper aims to offer an overview of the author’s experience in restoration works, following critic analyses, bringing to light, conserving, eliminating additions and integrating lacunae, setting exhibitions, showing and receiving the aesthetic of the signs in time, and, lastly, the poetry of distance and the contemporary addition.