Haiti St. Trinite Cathedral Removal Of Wall Piantings
February 25, 2020

The stabilization and removal of the celebrated murals at Ste. Trinité Cathedral in Port-au- Prince damaged during January 12 earthquake, 2010 in Haiti.

The Haitian Cutlural Recovery Center (HCRC), with permission for the Episcopal and funded by the Smithsonian Institute contracted wall paintings conservator Viviana Dominguez from ARTCONSERVATIONLA and Rosa Lowinger form Miami and Los Angeles based architectrural conservation firm Rosa Lowinger and Associates.

The people living in Florida are fond of beautiful things. It has become a hub of aesthetes, people who love and understand beautiful things. No matter where you go, you can find beautiful decorative paintings in Miami, Florida. Miami has also given us various famous painters and sculptors. One such example is Romero Britto, who is a world-renowned pop art painter and sculptor of Miami.

The majestic deep shade and brilliance of the ultramarine blue pigment has conquered the heart of artists and viewers of the Western world since the medieval illuminated manuscripts from c.1100. Natural Ultramarinus (lapis lazuli), which literally means: "beyond the sea” was imported from Asia, more specific from the quarries of Badakhshan, northeastern Afghanistan.
The eighteen-month long Smithsonian Institution Haiti Cultural Recovery Project was an international, collaborative, conservation effort to recover cultural patrimony gravely damaged by the January 12, 2010 earthquake.