Tecniche di doratura

Many churches in Mesolcina and Calanca contain Baroque stuccoes richly decorated with 22-carat pure gold.
The restorer-gilder Marco Somaini will explain how the centuries-old belonging to the diocese of Chur and the artistic emigration of the Magistri Moesani to German and Austrian lands have contributed in a fundamental way to the massive presence of gilding - a technique of Central European origin - in our churches and chapels. It can be said that the Moesano represents an enclave south of the Alps of stuccoes decorated in the Nordic style.