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Today to Genoa the managing director of Maersk Line will meet the main Italian customers
Initiative in favor of the restoration of the medieval work Pallium of San Lorenzo
April 22, 2013
Today to Genoa the managing director of the shipowning company Maersk Line, Soren Skou, will meet the main Italian customers during an organized dinner near the Museum of Sant'Agostino. In the course of the evening the participants will have the possibility to on the whole visit the museum center situated conventual agostiniano guided from the curator of the Museum, Adelmo Taddei, and to admire the reproduction of the Pallium of San Lorenzo, a donated Byzantine work to Genoa in the XIII century from the emperor of Constantinople, Michele VIII Paleologo. The work is today under restoration near the Factory of Hard Stones of Florence and is to the center of the initiative "Mecenate with 5 Euros" that Maersk Line has decided to support with a donation and that it previews to finance the restoration of the Pallium through the deposit by 40 thousand people of five euro in order to save a square centimeter of the work.
"When they have illustrated me the initiative and told how much the work represents from the historical and artistic point of view - Orazio Stella has explained, managing director of Maersk in Italy - I have joined with enthusiasm. Our contribution in favor of the Museum of Sant'Agostino and the restoration work of the Pallium is a sign of acknowledgment for the beauties of the city of Genoa, than it accommodates us from years in a context as that of the Warehouses of the Cotton, that it is between beautifulst that can be imagined".
"The collaboration with Maersk and the immediate adhesion to our deep project of collection for the complex and delicate restoration of the Pallium - Adelmo Taddei has asserted - represents a demonstration for us than the synergy between private public can be profitable and, in particular in the within of arts. It is favorable that such "common distances" expand and find continuity in the time, in order compiutamente to realize that synergy between sections that can involve advantages for both".
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