Traditional techniques optimized in restoration. The crucial contribution of Paolo Marconi

Paolo Marconi was the first to point out the importance of recovering the use of traditional techniques and materials in restoration, but he was one of its best and most consistent advocates. Throughout his long professional career, he studied and used them with increasing knowledge of the cause. He made use of on-site work, dialogue with the creators and documentary research. His long learning process was not only recorded in his books and articles, but also in collective books such as the manuali del recupero of Rome and Palermo, which constitute an attempt to recover and transmit the constructive knowledge peculiar to each region or city in Italy.