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Roma – Biblioteca Hertziana

The Biblioteca Hertziana was founded in ROME (LAZIO) in 1913 by the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft as an institute for the study of post-antique Italian art, in particular Renaissance and Baroque art in Rome. These two periods continue to be the fields of principal interest but are now flanked by a third, the art of medieval Italy. The Hertziana covers all art that flourished in Rome and Central and Southern Italy, and not only a particular field of art, in the conviction that it was from here that the tendencies that influenced all of European art went out. The dizzying increase in the books in the library’s collection led to an international competition for reconstruction in 1995, which was won by the Spanish architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg.

Restoration project

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Characteristics of the project: re-opening the mouth of the “mascherone”; an addition of stepped galleries above, opening of the room in funnel shape and oblique walls so that the light arrives below and is reflected in the direction of the individual floors.
Project
Sponsors: Max Planck Gesellschaft; City of Rome, Office Projects for the Historical City
Architect: Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Madrid;
Construction procedures: Architect Enrico Da Gai, Architect Paolo Riccetti (Rome).
Restoration
Restoration of the flooring. Faithfully reproduced format: rough “gentilizia” 13x3x2 cm rectangular tiles.