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| Vinci Revealed Talent of First Painter to King Louis XIV The team of restorers headed by Cinzia Pasquali is currently completing its cleaning of the paintings on the vaulted ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versailles. There is the end of the first major phase of the second half of the restoration project. It is now once again possible to appreciate the delicate purity of line and the palette of colours used by Charles Le Brun, the First Painter to King Louis XIV. Such finer details had become obscured beneath the dust of the centuries and by a series of partial restoration campaigns, the first of them undertaken as early as the 18th century. The giant French construction company Vinci is in charge of the entire restoration operation, which is being implemented by teams made up of restorers from within the Group as well as outside specialists. Vinci is thus responsible for both managing the project and for the administrative and financial management of the operation. Decisions of a technical, artistic or methodological nature are taken by the head architect at Monuments Historiques, the Monitoring Committee and the International Scientific Council. This first comprehensive restoration of the Hall began in July 2004, within the innovative framework of a skills-based sponsorship arrangement. Vinci is funding the works – 12 million euros – and making available to the project the expertise of Group firms specialising in the restoration of historic buildings. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |