TO Sanseverino Marche (Mc) on June 15th Diocese of Camerino and Sanseverino the small one reopens after years seventeenth and eighteenth century church of San Giuseppe. One stands out novelty on the right wall: the baroque altar destroyed on 31 December 2009 from a fire triggered by a short circuit is proposed through a wooden shape with essential shapes made on a steel structure «as far as possible not visible» (photo by Studio Hexagon Group). The architect from Settempedano Luca Maria Cristini he signs the project and explains to the «Giornale dell’Arte»: «The focus is the restoration of spatial balance. We used openly contemporary materials, we took up the shape and volume by adopting a sort of “rigatino” as in the restoration of paintings and according to the dictates of Cesare Brandi: we restore the forms, from afar we perceive a unitary vision, but we denounce that the The altar is no longer there. It’s not the ‘as it was, where it was’ formula.”.
The wood is birch plywood. San Giuseppe, in the lower part of Sanseverino, has a thousand square meters of decorated surface. The church was closed because it was damaged by the 1997 earthquake; work began in 2013, but the 2016 earthquake damaged the construction site and the bell tower which had been intact until then. The new restorations began in 2021.«The altar cost around 75 thousand euros. In the niche the plaster sculpture of the Madonna from the early 1900s, which survived the fire and water from the firefighters, remains but behind, no longer visible”, says the architect again. He replaces it, in view, an altarpiece from the sacristy restored in the laboratories of the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata and painted by the Flemish Ernst van Schayck.
