[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig For ONE-MA3’s last day together in Italy, we had a lot of work planned. We started the day by pulling our boulders out of the oven and taking samples of the interior and […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The ONE-MA3 team had been excitedly waiting for our Egyptian blue to finish cooking and today we were finally able to take our mixtures out of the furnace and see the change in […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig Day two in Aramengo was dedicated to learning about the fresco-making process and creating our own frescoes. In the morning, we walked through the studio of Gianluigi Nicola, one of the town’s fresco-painters. […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig It was now time for ONE-MA3 to leave the big city and head for the hills of Aramengo, which I was very excited about. We climbed past flowers and trees into a town […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig A taste of the royal life awaited the ONE-MA3 group in Piedmont today. We were told that we were going to be starting the day with a set of lectures in a […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig On our agenda for today, was to experience the grandeur of both a castle and a palace! Our first stop was the Castello di Valentino. After a series of lectures from researchers […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The next stop on our ONE-MA3 Journey through Italy was Turin! On our first day in Turin, we didn’t focus on Italian architecture or scanning mosaics, rather we focused on a different culture […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The ONE-MA3 team was granted a special visit to the restricted lab in Pompeii to see restorations in progress. Before we arrived at the lab, we had a lecture from researchers in Pompeii […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig 6/23/2017 – Hidden Underneath the Vatican We were all sad to leave the castle in Priverno, but it was time to leave our fortress full of research gadgets and gelato for an adventure […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig Today, the ONE-MA3 team traveled to the Archaeological Museum to view mosaics extracted from the dig site in Privernum. We were curious how grand the mosaics would have looked when they were still […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig It was a day of creation for the ONE-MA3 team. Today, Italian experts came to the castle we’re staying at to teach us about ancient Roman mortar making techniques. The experts lead us […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig Today was day one on the job for the ONE-MA3 crew. To get a handle on the archaeological site that we would be working with, we went to the museum in Priverno […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig The ONE-MA3 team started off the weekend immersing ourselves in the Italian way. After espressos and pastries for breakfast, we headed to the beach to test our language skills at the fish market. […]
[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig After a full night of flying for the majority of the ONE-MA3 students, we arrived in Rome and commenced our grand Italy trip. Our first day was no ride to a hotel and […]