Last week the CCA team had the pleasure of attending the 12th ICCM conference, a triennial international event that gathers specialists from around the world to discuss current research and practice in mosaics conservation. It was held in Sassari and Alghero, in Sardinia, at the invitation of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le Province […]
Welcome to our new blog series Readings in Mosaic Conservation, which presents key texts in mosaic conservation literature. To inaugurate the series we selected an article by Gaël de Guichen, honorary president of the ICCM and Special Advisor to the Director-General of ICCROM, and Roberto Nardi, ICCM president and director of the Centro di Conservazione Archeologica. […]
Mashhour Altfiehat, Nemer Alzouby, Mohammad Sh’Yyab, Firas Tbayshat, Mohamad Moutaz Alshaieb, Taieb Belgacem, Ferhani Chihaoui and Hamadi Sillini are the eight participants of the current MOSAIKON training course: MCC JST 2014. They will be in Belmonte in Sabina (RI), Italy, for four weeks, learning about the conservation of detached mosaics. Mashhour A A Altfiehat, […]
MCC Jordan Syria Tunisia 2014 has just started at CCA’s headquarters near Rome. It is part of MOSAIKON, an initiative aiming to promote best practice in mosaics preservation in the Mediterranean region. Partners of the project are the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), the Getty Foundation, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration […]
The International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics promotes the advancement of the philosophy and practice of mosaics conservation. It was founded in Rome in 1977, during an international meeting of mosaic specialists organized by ICCROM, in response to the need felt by the participants to have an official advisory body for those involved in the safeguarding […]