Italian professor ready to help revive Armenian art restoration school

YEREVAN, November 13, /ARKA/. Francesco Gallo, a professor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, Italy, said today in Yerevan he was ready to help revitalize the art restoration school in Armenia.

‘If such an invitation is extended to me I will accept it with pleasure and will help to revive the art restoration school of Armenia,’ he said at a news conference at Novosti International Press Center.

He said the revival of the restoration school is extremely important and the first step to be made is to decide which restoration school to follow- the French, Greek or Italian.

According to him, the French and Greek schools seek to restore destroyed objects, while the Italian is aimed at preservation of the available cultural legacy.

He said Armenian specialists should decide which direction to follow. He also added that they will have first of all to focus on restoration of monuments at Erebuni reserve-museum in Yerevan, many of which were destroyed during the Soviet times. He said all monuments need to be scrutinized and taken stock of.

Francesco Galo has arrived in Armenia to prepare an exhibition of prominent Armenian painter, Minas Avetisian’s works in Italy, scheduled for 2010. -0-