Oct 15, 2012 13:08
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From an article on sculpture in 18th century Rome -
"Il restauro delle sculture antiche a quest’epoca era ancora un’attività con un forte aspetto creativo: il prestigio di un intervento si giocava sulla correttezza delle **integrazioni**, che venivano progettate e discusse con la consulenza degli eruditi"
"Anche per i restauratori i modelli a grandezza naturale rappresentavano un elemento chiave nel rapporto con i committenti; potevano infatti servire per verificare con i curatori del museo l’opportunità delle **integrazioni** da realizzare sulle sculture e l’effetto compositivo finale, come confermano le ricorrenti visite di Visconti e del pontefice presso gli studi di Gaspare Sibilla e Giovanni Pierantoni per osservare le soluzioni adottate"
Another Kudoz question suggests 'additions' (http://www.proz.com/kudoz/italian_to_english/archaeology/162... but I'm not conviced that is the best solution here. Any suggestions?
Many thanks in advance,
Ian
"Il restauro delle sculture antiche a quest’epoca era ancora un’attività con un forte aspetto creativo: il prestigio di un intervento si giocava sulla correttezza delle **integrazioni**, che venivano progettate e discusse con la consulenza degli eruditi"
"Anche per i restauratori i modelli a grandezza naturale rappresentavano un elemento chiave nel rapporto con i committenti; potevano infatti servire per verificare con i curatori del museo l’opportunità delle **integrazioni** da realizzare sulle sculture e l’effetto compositivo finale, come confermano le ricorrenti visite di Visconti e del pontefice presso gli studi di Gaspare Sibilla e Giovanni Pierantoni per osservare le soluzioni adottate"
Another Kudoz question suggests 'additions' (http://www.proz.com/kudoz/italian_to_english/archaeology/162... but I'm not conviced that is the best solution here. Any suggestions?
Many thanks in advance,
Ian
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +1 | modern additions |
Valentina Mazzei
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| 4 | Conservation (work ) |
issyb
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| 4 | restorations |
Neptunia
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| 3 | Modifications/Alteration/Changes |
Karen Rossi
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| 3 | remodelling |
Laurence Fogarty
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Proposed translations
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Valentina Mazzei
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modern additions
I have often read (modern, 19th century or a noun's) additions in the context of restoration...i.e. adding a reproduction of a missing part of an original sculpture.
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Modifications/Alteration/Changes
I would say that those solutions sound in this context. In my opinion here "Integrazioni" means something or some part whci had been added later.
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Laurence Fogarty
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remodelling
I found this interesting article below on Pierantoni, which explains why these ancient objects were re-modelled (or rebuilt) to contemporary (in this case, C18th.) standards and beliefs. It has a number of ways of expressing the idea raised in the source text which you could use in this context, I am opting for 'remodelling'.
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Conservation (work )
I feel that modifications, changes etc are inappropriate because the idea was not to add what had not been there before but to recreate what had been there, or at least what was thought to have been there. Nowadays instead the tendency is to distinguish clearly between the original, with its missing parts, and the mere suggestion of how it might have been.
I hope I am making sense.
I hope I am making sense.
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restorations
As others have suggested, the word can be translated different ways depending on context. (For a two dimensional work of art: toning, fills, inpainting, restoration, or retouching could be options). In this case, they mean not only filling a gap or a repairing a hole, but also sculpting noses or fingers, combining existing stray arms, legs, and heads, and adding allegorical elements to recreate whole sculptures. Maybe try "re-assemblies" or "re-fashioning" as well as "restoration" where needed.
http://crj.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/1/1.full
http://crj.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/1/1.full
Discussion
"Antonio Giuseppe Guattani si rallegrò che la statua fosse stata «compensata in gran parte dal valente scultore Sig.Pierantoni, che il tutto ha egregiamente supplito in marmo carrarino», anche se contestò la scelta dell’integrazione della mano che a suo parere in origine avrebbe dovuto stringere una fiaccola"
I think in this case the word 'addition' needs extra explanation - perhaps something like "...even though he questioned the design of the added hand, which he believed would have originally held a torch".
Would you agree? Thanks very much for your help!