ABSTRACT
The fame of Succi’s transfers was not confined, as was the case with Contri, to the limits of the Po valley. Cosimo Morelli, the architect for the new cathedral in Imola, in 1809 remembered that thirty years previously Giacomo Succi had offered his services in order to transfer the frescos by Cesi which would have been destroyed in the demolition of the old cathedral, and had referred to the success of the experimental tests carried out in Rome, despite the incredulity expressed by Mengs; [his renown was such] that a sinecure was created for Succi, the post of “estrattista of the paintings in the Sacro Palazzo Apostolico”.
