Integrated Processes of Knowledge, Conservation and Valorisation of the Religious Architectural Heritage. Chapels as Part of the Whole

Abstract

The study of church architecture for its conservation is the focus of this research. The project aims to create a filing whose original characteristics, in a broader field of specifically historical-architectural study, lie in the collection of unpublished data on the history of restoration, intertwined with the identification of authentic material-constructive values, and in their restitution on exact surveys, for the subsequent "networking" of the same, through the use of communication and fruition strategies, capable of attracting the greatest possible number of users, so as to contribute to their valorisation. The chapel of Blessed Gerard in the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi and the chapel of the Holy Rosary in the church of St. Catherine in Palermo were chosen as examples of this research.