• REFRAME provided significant new knowledge about the practice of reusing funerary and votive reliefs produced in Greece from the late 6th to the 2nd centuries BCE both at quantitative and qualitative level. The systematic survey done by means of fieldwork (visits to Museums and archaeological sites in Greece), library, and archive research resulted in a better appreciation of the occurrences of this practice in the funerary, religious, and domestic domain, allowing to collect new evidence regarding the reuse of funerary reliefs and to gather for the first time a corpus of votive reliefs reused in ancient Greece.
• It established a new conceptual and methodological model to address the reuse of Greek funerary and votive reliefs from a long-term, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective by applying a case studies research strategy that focused on the value and impact of the reliefs over time and space from their origin right through their musealization and beyond, without privileging specific phases. As to the methodology, a votive relief for Cybele in the Thorvaldsen Museum was addressed as a case study and investigated in depth in collaboration with other researchers and scientists. In particular, the provenance of the marble used to carve the relief was investigated by integrating archaeometric methods (stable isotope analysis and minero-petrographic examination of a thin section) and the polychromy of the relief was analyzed by means of multispectral imaging and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, to identify traces of repainting or later interventions.
• It provided and tested a new museum communication model by conceiving and curating the pop-up exhibition “From Greece to Copenhagen. The itineraries of two reliefs”, organized at the Thorvaldsen Museum from May 25 to August 28, 2023 in collaboration with the curatorial and communication staff of the museum. The research and curatorial work carried out for planning and organizing this pop-up exhibition succeeded in establishing a feasible, sustainable, and replicable model that can be easily employed by other cultural heritage institutions interested in sharing with the public the results of scientific research regarding the itineraries of ancient sculptures.
• It established an international network of scholars dealing with sculptural reuse from different disciplinary perspectives through the organization of two workshops and the co-organization of a conference. In particular, the workshop organized at the Danish Institute at Athens addressed the topic of reframing antique sculptures in Roman Greece, presenting new evidence and investigating the phenomenon in Greece from different perspectives and in different periods. The conference co-organized in Pisa has extended the comparison geographically focusing on Greek sculptures reused in Rome and other Mediterranean cities and on their active role in past and present. Through the final workshop in Copenhagen, the Greco-Roman attitudes toward and interest in antique artefacts were discussed within a wider comparative and interdisciplinary framework, by bringing together archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals as well as by addressing theoretical and methodological challenges. The achieved results will be exploited after the conclusion of the project through the publication of a collective edited volume.
• It developed and implemented a database for processing and sharing the data generated and collected by the research with the widest possible community, including scholars, students, museum professional, and the general public.
