The Atelier Jaune de Naples (naples yellow) meticulously respects the deontological and ethical rules of conservation-restoration.
Conservation-restoration: All measures and actions aimed at safeguarding the material cultural heritage, while ensuring its accessibility for present and future generations. Conservation-restoration includes preventive conservation, curative conservation and restoration. All these measures and actions must respect the meaning and physical properties of cultural goods.
Preventive conservation: All measures and actions aimed at preventing and minimizing future damage or loss. These measures and actions are indirect: they do not interfere with the materials and structures of goods.
Curative conservation: All actions taken directly on a property, with the aim of stopping an active process of deterioration, when the conservation of the property is threatened
Restoration: Act to preserve a work of art over time. This intervention must respect the aesthetic and historical integrity of the work.
It is from these values that theories, rules and principles have been formulated to guide conservators in their approach.
The fundamental principles are:
- Visibility of interventions: all interventions on the original work must be discernible without hindering its readability.
- Reversibility of interventions: according to this principle, any restoration, both conservative and aesthetic, should be able to be undone in order to return to an initial state.
- Physical and chemical stability of materials used in restoration: these materials must be compatible with the materials of the original work and not risk damaging it.
- Minimum intervention: especially by the impossibility of reconciling the three fundamental principles.
It should be emphasized that restoration is an interdisciplinary science, the result of collaboration between scientist, art historian and restorer.
It is for this reason that restoration work is often the occasion for studies, knowledge and discoveries.
Practicing the profession of conservator, today, means having technical knowledge, scientific, artistic sensitivity and a culture of art history.
All these skills ensure the greatest respect for the work to be restored.