Studio Fenice is a glass making and artistic stained glass restoration workshop, founded in 1983 in Bologna by Americo Corallini and Valeria Bertuzzi, master glaziers and restorers specializing in ceramic and glass artifacts. Initially, the two partners designed and crafted leaded and fire painted stained glass windows, as well as grisaille painted and multicolored enamel windows for historical buildings and homes; later, they dedicated themselves to the restoration of ancient stained glass, which today constitutes their main field of activity. In over 30 years of experience, they carried out restorative interventions on stained glass windows attributed to famous artists, such as Taddeo Gaddi, Jacopo del Casentino and Maestro di Figline. In 1994 they published the volume “Il restauro delle vetrate” (Stained glass restoration). Since 2012 they are members of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Techincal Committee. They also install isothermal windows.
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Studio Fenice’s work in the field of restoration is their greatest source of prestige. Admirable is the depth with which they analyse the issues ...
Studio Fenice’s work in the field of restoration is their greatest source of prestige. Admirable is the depth with which they analyse the issues posed by the deterioration of materials and structures in stained glass windows, fragile intermediaries of lighting in architecture. Valeria Bertuzzi and Americo Corallini’s work is characterized by two apparently colliding aspects: a rigorous approach to working practices and the scientific analysis of materials and techniques is paired with their appreciation for “tactile values”, essentially artisanal features resulting from the work of skilled eyes and hands, which give each piece a sense of time. Having absorbed the ways and traditions of centuries of glassmaking techniques, Studio Fenice favours a traditional style for its original stained glass, thus becoming bearers of the same warmth and atmosphere which ancient stained glass windows were able to convey.