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Conservators complete color fresco restoration at Palo Alto's Roth Building; lower panels need further study
Summary
City staff reported on the completion of restoration for the Roth Building's upper color frescoes and described remaining work for the more fragile lower grisaille panels; staff said the project used a County of Santa Clara grant and a documented maintenance plan.
City staff told the Palo Alto Public Art Commission that conservators have completed restoration of the Roth Building's upper color frescoes and submitted detailed reports, while additional testing and planning are required for the lower grisaille panels.
"We brought the frescoes to the commission's attention the first time in 2016," Nadia, who led the project presentation, said during the commission's December meeting, describing the multi-year effort to conserve murals on the Roth Building at 300 Homer Avenue. She said the restoration team removed later overpaint, cleaned the surfaces, filled losses, and inpainted fragile areas using reversible methods and thorough documentation.
Nadia told commissioners the conservators completed work on the four larger color panels of the upper register and a…
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