<p class="bodytext">It is a sensitive work to conserve paintings, said Nilabh Sinha, principal director of INTACH-ICI, Art and Material Heritage Division (New Delhi).</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The old art works are precious and should be conserved,” he stressed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaking after inaugurating the restored paintings at the St Aloysius Chapel on Saturday. Sinha said, “While restoring age-old paintings, we should have knowledge of the original art work. The restoration works were carried out without harming the originality.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">Silvana Rizzi, from Milan, Italy, a relative of painter Antonio Moscheni said, “The painter must have fallen in love with Indian flowers. Majority of the paintings have a variety of flowers from India. Although Mangaluru has become modern, the flavour of the past should be retained to make the city beautiful.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">The paintings at the Chapel were first restored by specialists from INTACH-ICI, Lucknow, in 1991, under the supervision of Dr Agarwal, the then director of INTACH-ICI. Following his advice that the paintings need to be restored every 20 years, once again, the paintings have been restored.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The entire conservation work has been completed within 18 months, at a total cost of Rs 1.50 crore. The illumination of the paintings was also replaced with special LED lights.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The wall paintings and oil paintings of the chapel were done by Italian Jesuit and painter Antonio Moscheni in 1899, covering a total of 829 sq metres, with exquisite frescoes and canvasses within 30 months. The renovated museum, Aloyseum, was also inaugurated on the occasion.</p>
<p class="bodytext">It is a sensitive work to conserve paintings, said Nilabh Sinha, principal director of INTACH-ICI, Art and Material Heritage Division (New Delhi).</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The old art works are precious and should be conserved,” he stressed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaking after inaugurating the restored paintings at the St Aloysius Chapel on Saturday. Sinha said, “While restoring age-old paintings, we should have knowledge of the original art work. The restoration works were carried out without harming the originality.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">Silvana Rizzi, from Milan, Italy, a relative of painter Antonio Moscheni said, “The painter must have fallen in love with Indian flowers. Majority of the paintings have a variety of flowers from India. Although Mangaluru has become modern, the flavour of the past should be retained to make the city beautiful.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">The paintings at the Chapel were first restored by specialists from INTACH-ICI, Lucknow, in 1991, under the supervision of Dr Agarwal, the then director of INTACH-ICI. Following his advice that the paintings need to be restored every 20 years, once again, the paintings have been restored.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The entire conservation work has been completed within 18 months, at a total cost of Rs 1.50 crore. The illumination of the paintings was also replaced with special LED lights.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The wall paintings and oil paintings of the chapel were done by Italian Jesuit and painter Antonio Moscheni in 1899, covering a total of 829 sq metres, with exquisite frescoes and canvasses within 30 months. The renovated museum, Aloyseum, was also inaugurated on the occasion.</p>
