As we have already published in various articles over the course of this year, bit by bit the face of Barga Vecchia is being changed. It has been a gradual process but recently the speed has been picking up as more and more of the houses and centuries old palazzi are renovated and new colours are brightening up the whole city….. well, actually not new colours according to the Architect Massimiliano Lanciani who has been overseeing the work on many of the palazzi.
He insists that the colours now being seen in Barga Vecchia are in fact very representative of the original colours and designs that were already in place but which have since faded or darkened with age. He claims to have put them back to their original splendour.
This does somewhat beg the question; just when were the original colours painted ? Right when the palazzo was first built ? or at another point during its 500 years history?
In January of last year Architect Lanciani and the specialist decorator Luciano Zanella were working on this palazzo (article here) Also that year emergency work was started on Palazzo Balduini in Via di Mezzo in Barga Vecchia. (article here) The Palazzo in front of Casa Cordati had for some time been shedding parts of its plaster facing into the street below. Renovations continued through this summer (article here)
Those renovation are now finished and the speculation that was mounting as to just what will be the final new colours of the building has also come to an end. We now know the colour of the Palazzo.
In what has probably been a landmark decision for the palazzi of Barga, the Palazzo Balduini has been returned to the colour that was found by Architect Massimiliano Lanciani around some the window mouldings. Barga Vecchia now has a green palazzo for the first time in centuries.
Let the polemic begin.
Marisa Firato exhibition
Included on the walls are a series of paintings dedicated to Giacomo Puccini. Make sure you also see the small painting of the passageway next to the Palazzo Balduini in Barga Vecchia. As we have already published in other articles there has been intense speculation on the final colour on the restored facade of the building but it would seem that the Marisa Firato was once step ahead of everybody else. – full article here