Soprintendenza per il patrimonio storico artistico
e demoetnoantropologico di Brescia, Cremona e Mantova
Piazza Paradiso 3 - 46100 Mantova
tel. 0376-352111; fax 0376-366274 Soprintendente: dott. Filippo Trevisani
The Ministero per i Beni e le
Attività Culturali is encharged of the protection,
conservation and improvement of the historical and
artistic heritage spread all over the Italian territory.
The Soprintendenza P.S.A.D. of Brescia, Cremona and
Mantova is the peripheral organ caring after the mobile
patrimony belonging to public or ecclesiastic bodies,
institutions with legal standing and foundations concerning
the three Lombard provinces. Also private goods when
declared of “particular historical or artistic
importance” and notified to their owners with a
Ministry decree, are under the tutelage of the Soprintendenza.
Under thecontrol of the Soprintendenza are:
The territory of the three
foretold provinces (Brescia, Cremona and Mantova)
The Ducal Palace Museum
TERRITORY
The
protection of the historical and artistic heritage
carried out by the Soprintendenza begins with the
relation with the territory, and the inspections
necessary to point out and avoid degradation.
Thus,
it’s forbidden to move, demolish, modify, restore or
sell any art good without previous authorization of the
Soprintendenza; this law is valid for all Bodies active
on the territory: public Bodies, Institutions with legal
standing, ecclesiastic Bodies and private Foundations as
well as for private owners of art goods already notified.
Officers
responsible for single areas of the territory:
dott. Giuseppina Marti, Diocesis of Mantova
Tel. 0376-352144
dott.
Giovanni Rodella
Diocesis of Cremona
Tel. 0376-3521143
dott.
Stefano L'Occaso
south-eastern
part of Mantova Diocesis
Tel.
0376-352146
dott.
Renata Casarin Diocesis of
Crema and southern part of Brescia
Diocesis
Tel. 0376-352112
dott.
Rita Dugoni
Diocesis of
Brescia (city, northern part and south-eastern part)
and Diocesis of Verona (in BS district)
Tel. 0376-352115
The Soprintendenza is articulated in a
series of offices which play a key role in its
scientific activity; they are partly open to the public.
UFFICIO CATALOGO/CATALOGUE
Coordination:
dott. Giovanni Rodella
Catalogue documentation is available on
application in the following days: Monday-Tuesday
8.00-14.00; 14.30-15.30
students need a written presentation by their
teachers
Tel. 0376-352101
The
catalogue activity is essential for the protection of
art objects all over the territory; its main purpose
being the prevention against robberies (always
increasing) and the knowledge of the artistic heritage.
From the Seventies a vast and complete campaign of
cataloguing has begun, and actually almost 80% of the
patrimony has been catalogued; the criteria adopted
involve the photographic documentation of each item and
a scientific filling of the OA schedule.
In
the Nineties a new informatics format has been adopted
and thus schedules are now filled according to the
instructions of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e
la Documentazione of the Ministry.
ARCHIVIO E LABORATORIO FOTOGRAFICO/PHOTO
ARCHIVE AND LABORATORY
Coordination: dott. Giovanni Rodella
Photo archive documentation is available on
application in the following days:
Monday 9.00-12.00,
Tuesday 15.00-17.00
on appointment Tel. 0376-352143
The
photo archive, including a vast documentation dating
back to the end of the 19th century, is divided into
three main funds:
A)Historical
fund Includes material
concerning the whole state, dating from the end of the
19th century to the half of the 20th, is made up by
photographic campaigns carried out by firms like Alinari
or Calzolari;
the
material
is particularly
meaningful for the
documentation of everything that got destroyed or
damaged during wars
;
B)Modern
fund Includes material
concerning the territory of the Soprintendenza and
carried out by its staff from the half of the 20th
century;
C) Actual fund Includes not only
prints but also negatives, diacolors and the whole
documentation of recent restorations, as well as
materials deposited from the outside.
The
laboratory is also active to satisfy all the demands of
new takes, duplicates and pictures; all requests have to
be
detailedly
put forth to the attention of the Soprintendente
.
LABORATORIO DI RESTAURO/RESTORATION
LABORATORY
Coordination:
dott. Renata Casarin
Domenico Brusasorci,
Angels playing music instruments, particular,
Mantova, chiesa di Santa Barbara
Restorations
may be financed by the Soprintendenza, but also by
ecclesiastic bodies or private sponsors.The Soprintendenza surveys over the correct
undertaking of restorations, by means of the territory
officer, who can express technical judgements on the
choice of the operator and on the restoration itself.
The restoration laboratory is active on the restoration
of objects belonging to the territory under control of
the Soprintendenza, but can also give advices on works
documented in the archive; this archive is also open to
the public on application, and includes material
concerning restorations carried out on the three
provinces of the territory (Brescia, Cremona and
Mantova).
BIBLIOTECA/LIBRARY
Access on application:
Tel. 0376-352126
The
library is made up by monographs and magazines (more
than 9000 units) mainly about art history. Even if
materials of national or international interest are here
kept, the majority of the publications concerns the
territory of the Soprintendenza; the material is usually
acquired in two ways: economic funds granted yearly by
the Ministry are available to the Soprintendenza, which
also receives gifts from various Bodies and particularly
from Banks.Because of the lack of staff, at
present the library is open only to the employees of the
Soprintendenza, and to external collaborators who
attend at the catalogue of art objects for the Soprintendenza itself.
