Restoration of the Reliquary Arches preserved in the Chapel of the Relics of the Cathedral of Palermo
At the same time as the ongoing restoration of the Chapel of Santa Rosalia, the restoration of all the silver reliquary urns with wooden bases contained within the Chapel of the Relics of the Cathedral of Palermo is about to begin, which have not been worked on for over a hundred years. The operations include the restoration of the carved, painted, gilded and silvered wooden structures that support the silver bases containing the relics of the beloved saints and martyrs of Palermo and Sicily, cases characterized by metal elements in molten, embossed and chiseled silver. Specifically, the project includes the intervention on the 6 reliquary urns surmounted by a silver structure: Sant’Agata (formerly of S. Rosalia), Santa…
