STUDEC
STUCCO DECORATION ACROSS EUROPE
Project title: STUCCO DECORATION ACROSS EUROPE
Project acronym: STUDEC
Project ID: 2022-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000085652
Programme: Erasmus+
Action type: KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education
National agency: CZ01 – Dům zahraniční spolupráce (DZS) – Centre for International Cooperation in Education
Coordinator: Palacký University Olomouc
Main contact person: Jana Zapletalová
Implementation period: 1 December 2022 – 30 November 2025
Partners
The following organisations act as project partners:
SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE
DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA (SUPSI)
Country: Switzerland
Main contact person: Giacinta Jean
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
Country: Italy
Main contact person: Serena Quagliaroli
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI
Country: Poland
Main contact person: Michał Kurzej
ÚSTAV TEORETICKÉ A APLIKOVANÉ MECHANIKY AV ČR, v. v. i.
Country: Czech Republic
Main contact person: Jan Válek
PROJECT SUMMARY
The project aims at creating an international interdisciplinary network of specialists in study and preservation of precious stucco decorations which are irreversibly damaged by inexpert restoration all over Europe. Partners will transfer the shared innovative know-how into practice and university lecturing in order to train a new generation of specialists educated in an interdisciplinary way who will get over the current field isolation and will preserve the common European cultural heritage. Partners from four countries (CZ, CH, PL, IT), specializing in stuccos, will perform a wide range of scholarly, teaching and dissemination activities to share the new and innovative research findings on materials, techniques and proper restoration work on stucco decorations. They will transfer this knowledge into university lecturing, among specialists in practice (restorers and heritage protection institutions staff) and general public (of various ages, education levels and interests). The project will contribute towards common values, civic engagement and participation in the field of European cultural heritage. The target groups’ skills will be improved. There will be scholarly output (articles, book chapters), four international workshops and a conference, lectures and innovative teaching materials in digital form shared not only by the project partners. For dissemination purposes, there will be an on-site and/or on-line exhibition and a digital map, to name a few.
Selected Project Actvities
Workshop 1 – Baldassarre Fontana in the country of origin
April 23-29, 2023
Main organizer: SUPSI Mendrisio
Workshop programme (in PDF)
Photo report from the Workshop (in PDF)
Learning and teaching materials available:
- Alberto Felici – Giovanni Nicoli: Introduction to a technical reading of a stucco work
- Marta Caroselli – Jan Válek: Results of the scientific characterization of stucco decoration
- Giovanni Cavallo: Introduction to building and decorative raw materials used in Tessin Canton
- Alberto Felici – Giovanni Nicoli: The Stucco working of Baldassarre Fontana
Workshop 2 – Baldassarre Fontana in Krakow and surroundings
September 3-9, 2023
Main organizer: Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)
Workshop programme (in PDF)
Photo report from the Workshop (in PDF)
Learning and teaching material available:
- Michał Kurzej: Baldassarre Fontana in Cracow
Workshop 3 – Stucco decoration in Turin and Piedmont
April 8-12, 2024
Main organizer: University of Turin, Department of Historical Studies
Workshop programme (in PDF)
Photo report from the Workshop (in PDF)
Learning and teaching materials available:
- Serena Quagliaroli: Stucco in Turin and Piedmont
- Massimo Romeri – Alberto Felici – Giovanni Nicoli: Alessandro Casella from Carona
Other activities:
Dissemination event: Lecture Series "Artisti itineranti: dalle valli Italo-Svizzere alla Repubblica Ceca. Abilità techniche, capacità organizzative degli stuccatori ticinesi e lombardi tra XVI e XVIII secolo" [Migrující umělci z italsko-švýcarských údolí do České republiky. Technické dovednosti a organizační schopnosti ticinských a lombardských štukatérů mezi 16. a 18. stoletím]
Date and place: Praha, Italský kulturní institute, 16th October 2023
Organisers: Embassy of Switzerland in the Czech Republic, Embassy of Italy in the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute and Palacký University Olomouc
Learning and teaching materials available:
- Jana Zapletalová:
- Serena Quagliaroli:
- Alberto Felici:
- Giovanni Nicoli:
- Jean Giacinta: