Modica, Sicily, is probably as much famous for its Sicilian baroque architecture – being UNESCO site – as for its chocolate, produced with an ancient and original Aztec recipe introduced during the Spanish domination in the 16th century.
The left chapel in the church of San Pietro is in need of a restoration of the walls for water damages. Samantha Stout, PhD student at University of California San Diego, and myself were invited to contribute some diagnostics study of the painting materials on both the two walls of the chapel. So we drove to Modica, into the Hyblean plateau.
Left Chapel, Church of San Pietro, Modica.
Left wall, chapel in Church of San Pietro, Modica, Sicily. Samantha Stout, PhD Student, University of California San Diego, performing X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.
