Word: plasterers
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Like most filmgoers, I'd rather not see African-American actors play only plaster saints. Yet if Hollywood responds to Berry's and Washington's victories by serving up more leading roles for African-American actors that revel in the negative, then the result could be more distorting and destructive than if African-American actors were not recognized at all. We need to see cops and criminals, clowns and villains. We also need to see black actors in romances and sci-fi flicks, fantasy films and musicals--and we need to see such films promoted and, if worthy, honored...
...threats. Air pollution has become a serious problem. And only eight years after the last restoration, finished in 1963, it became obvious that it had done more harm than good. Neglecting to test his materials first, restorer Leonetto Tintori used synthetic resins to fix the painted layer to the plaster. As the resins aged, they hardened and the wall could no longer "breathe." Without further treatment, the painted layer was likely to fall...
...south, reducing some of its Giotto frescoes to a jigsaw of tiny fragments. Under Professor Basile, the crumbled artworks were reassembled and reinstated in record time. This achievement made Basile a natural choice to direct the Scrovegni restorations. Like Giotto, who organized assistants into a production line preparing plaster layers, grinding colors and transferring sketches, Basile assembled his team. As well as Institute graduates, he recruited Gianluigi Colalucci, who was responsible for restoring the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, and Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, restoration overseer for Da Vinci's Last Supper...
...paper impregnated with a solution of ammonium carbonate. Areas where the paint had fallen, due to humidity or previous restorations, have been filled in with fine hatching: parallel brush strokes in watercolor. The team re-covered the rusting heads of nails used in the late 19th century to anchor plaster to the wall. They removed old fixatives and fillings of unsuitable materials such as cement. They corrected previous attempts at retouching where color had altered or fallen, as it had from the sky behind Christ carrying the cross...
...only problem might be the poor condition of the plaster; it crumbles easily when we work with it,” he said...