CVMA activity

The Italian C.V.M.A. committee (C.V.M.A. - Italia) is an academic enterprise warranted by the "Unione Accademica Nazionale" (U.A.N. – Roma); and represented by the U.A.N. for the "Union Acadèmique International" (U.A.I.). On the base of his statute the CVMA- Italia is engaged in the safeguard of the Italian stained glass patrimony, an inheritance very important for the windows number and quality. Therefore the CVMA-Italia endeavours to promote the restoration of the damaged or tottering windows, suggesting the "C.V.M.A. Guideline" rules, and collaborating with the Soprintendenze and with the stained glass workshops whose professional training is appreciable.

The scientific activity of the C.V.M.A. –Italia is supported by some authoritative academies as the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere in Milano, at which are the CVMA residence and library; the Accademia delle Arti e del Disegno in Florence whose president Prof. Francesco Adorno is the honorary President of the C.V.M.A. - Italia; the C.N.R. Area della Ricerca with which the C.V.M.A. –Italia engaged in researches. Several are the restorations, the expositions, the congress promoted by the C.V.M.A. –Italia: as the "XVIIIth International Colloquium C.V.M.A. 1995" in Siena - Certosa di Pontignano; and the joined exposition" Vetrate della cattedrale di Pisa" in Pisa.

Recently (Lucca, september 1999) the C.V.M.A. – Italia promoted with the Istituto Storico Lucchese and the Scuola Normale di Pisa the seminar "La vetrata in occidente dal IV all’XI secolo"; therefore it has been created an archaeological section for recording the excavations of the early medieval west window glass.

Window-glass between the first and the tenth centuries inEurope and in Middle East

1971	Firenze, International Colloquium CVMA
1972	Publication of the book: G. MARCHINI Le vetrate dell’Umbria, CVMA Italia I
1986	Publication of the book: C.PIRINA Le vetrate del Duomo di Milano, CVMA Italia IV
1988	Milano, Congress "I laboratori vetrari lombardi sotto il dominio dei Visconti e degli Sforza" Milano Biblioteca Trivulziana, exposition "Dal fulgore delle pagine miniate al colore-luce delle vetrate" Publication of the catalogue "Dal fulgore delle pagine miniate al colore –luce delle vetrate"
1990	Milano, Palazzo della Ragione, exposition "La vetrata Liberty a Milano" Publication of the catalogue "La vetrata Liberty a Milano" Milano, Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere: 1th Seminary on " Le vetrate italiane – Patrimonio da salvare" annual serie of seminaries planned in collaboration with the "Ministero dei Beni Culturali, on the occasion of the "Settimana dei Beni Culturali"
1992	Firenze, Accademia La Colombaria, meeting in honour of Giuseppe Marchini
1993	Firenze, Accademia La Colombaria, seminar on "Per una carta di conservazione della vetrata"
1995	Siena, Certosa di Pontignano, "XVIIIth International Colloquium CVMA" Pisa, Museo dell’Opera Primaziale, exposition "Le vetrate della cattedrale pisana"
1997	Cortona , Palazzone , participation to the "Il patrimonio storico - artistico e l’emergenza sismica", meeting promoted by the "Scuola Normale di Pisa"
1999	Milano, Società di Incoraggiamento d’Arti e Mestieri, " TheRestoration of the Ancient Stained Glass", annual course in collaboration with the European Found Lucca, Villa Bottini, "La vetrata in Occidente dal IV all’XI secolo",meeting Promoted by the Istituto Storico Lucchese in collaboration with the Scuola Normale di Pisa and the CVMA - Italia
2001	Pavia Certosa restoration of stained glass windows of the Church
2002	Pavia Certosa restoration of stained glass windows of the Church (presently running)