Top of Porlezza, Parish Church of the Purification of Mary, Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, Painted on canvas

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Restoration report and report on the state of conservation with proposed intervention (04/1997-10/1997) relating to the restoration of the painting depicting the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.

 

 

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The work "Presentation of Jesus at the Temple" is a painting on canvas preserved in the Parish Church of the Purification of Mary at Cima di Porlezza, in the province of Como.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1997. 
The archive file does not contain photographs of the work and the intervention.
The restorer dismantled the painting from the frame (structure that supports the canvas of the painting) to perform a new lining (application of a reinforcement canvas on the back of a painting).
The restorer cleaned the yellowed varnish and carried out grouting (a white layer of plaster and glue that stretches inside a lack and forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions) where gaps (missing parts) emerged.
The pictorial integration (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) was done by hatching (thin and small lines of color that from a distance recompose the shape of the missing part).