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According to the college management, Moscheni had taken 2.5 years to complete the work comprising 50 canvas paintings and 600sq mt of wall paintings. We are looking for more people," he said.Fr Dionysius Vaz , rector, St Aloysius College Institutions, Mangaluru, said the chapel has always been an active place of worship, and will continue to be so. An expert team from INTACH Delhi had documented the work in 2016 and sent across a proposal to the St Aloysius College management in March 2017.The paintings at the St Aloysius Chapel comprise frescos, a European-Italian technique rarely sighted in India, and oil paintings on canvas by Italian Jesuit Antonio Moscheni in 1899. INTACH had undertaken the first conservation and restoration work from 1991 to 1994. MANGALURU: Almost 25 years after the iconic paintings at the St Aloysius Chapel were restored, the college management has re-employed INTACH Conservation Institutes to conserve and restore the century-old artefacts at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore.The project that began in November is scheduled to be completed within 18 months..