A petrographic study of the mortars from the Villa Reale di Marlia (NW Tuscany, Italy)

Marco Lezzerini, Marcello Spampinato, Nadia Montevecchi, Luca Borgoni, Henric Gronberg, Andrea Aquino
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the mortars from the facades of the Villa Reale di Marlia located about 10 km N-NE of the city centre of Lucca (northern Tuscany, Italy). It is a complex of historic buildings built during different constructive phases and embellished with beautiful gardens and botanic rarities, which are protected by high walls. Based on several petrographic analyses the study has allowed us to reconstruct the evolution of the colours of the villa s facades from the transformation project of Elisa Baciocchi to that of Maria Luisa di Borbone, up to the great intervention of recovery of the Pecci Blunt accounts in the twenties-thirties of the twentieth century.
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC4
Event name:
TC4 MetroArchaeo 2019
Title:

IMEKO TC4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Place:
Florence, ITALY
Time:
04 December 2019 - 06 December 2019