"Uniformità di stile" e "distinguibilità" nei restauri di Santa Lucia in Selci tra Leone XII e Gregorio XVI

The restoration works carried out in the small church of the Augustinian convent of San Lucia in Selci between 1814, the year of the apostolic visit of Pope Pius VII to the monastery, and 1847, the year in which the magazine Album describes in detail the work now compieteci, show how in the years of the Restaurazione in Rome a respectful attention had developed towards all the ancient and modem pre-existences. The works started in 1822, probably by Valadier, last a long time and also involved other parts of the monastery. lt is a restoration work that reworks and corrects the pre-existing according to an idea of "due style", far from a historical reading of the document. But the choice of materials adopted seems to re­ spond to the needs of saving resources, similar to what happens in the most important works to the Colosseum and the Arch of Titus. And also in this case the economie need ends up to clearly distinguish the restoration intervention by defin­ ing a criterion of great importance tor the future developments of the discipline