Pinin Brambilla Barcilon Archive
Monza, Cathedral, Chapel of St. Anthony Abbot, Wall Paintings
Description
Restoration reports, mappings, phototypes (positive, negative, slides).
consistency
Quantity 2|115|33|16|20|2
Type Positive document(s) on paper negative on film up to 10x15 cm slide sheet(s) loose sheet(s) out of standard format phototype(s)
Description 3 positive b/w 13x18 cm, 74 positive b/w 18x24 cm, 35 positives in colour 18x24 cm, 2 positive b/w 24x27 cm (obtained from the union of two cut-out positives), 1 positive in colour 12x13 cm,8 negatives on film 6x6 cm, 25 negatives on film 10x12 cm,8 colour slides 10x12 cm, 8 colour slides 6x6 cm, graphical mappings made by photographic reproduction,8 positive b/w 30.5x40.5.
Reordering sign
APBB_CTRS_F6_1; APBB_CTRS_C1_1
The dossier contains two restoration reports and a series of mappings. The phototypes document the restoration of the chapel and the vestibule of the church.
Facilitated description
The mural paintings by Carlo Innocenzo Carloni in the Chapel of Sant'Antonio Abate in the Cathedral of Monza are from about 1745.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the paintings in 1989-1990.
The restorer started with cleaning tests (cleaning the surface of the work of art from dirt deposited over time).
It consolidated (make the surfaces more stable) the parts of the fresco and filled in the gaps (missing parts).
The restorer has carried out the pictorial retouching with watercolors.
It has cleaned and consolidated (make the surfaces more stable) the plasterings (a white layer of plaster and glue that stretches inside a lack and that forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the integrations) golden.
The restorer cleaned the chapel's marble altar with steam.
Bibliography
Brambilla Barcilon, P., [et alii], The restoration of the Chapel of St. Anthony Abbot in the Cathedral of Monza, Monza, Viennepierre, 1990
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