Milan, Church of S. Maria delle Grazie, Gaudenzio Ferrari, torn mural painting

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Restoration report and photographic documentation relating to the restoration of the fresco, located in the Chapel of Santa Corona.

 

 

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The work is a torn fresco (a restorer transported the pictorial layer from the original support, the wall, to a different support, in this case a canvas applied to a rigid plastic support) by Gaudenzio Ferrari of 1540-1542 preserved in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
Originally, the fresco decorated the Chapel of Santa Corona of the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1992 under the direction of Sandrina Bandera.
The restorer verified the stability of the painting.
Removed dust, dirt, retouching and repainting.
It stopped the upheavals of painting.
After cleaning (cleaning the surface of the work of art of the dirt deposited over time), he carried out the grouting of the gaps (a white layer of plaster and glue that extends into a gap and forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions).
He carried out the pictorial reintegration (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) with veils (transparent layer of color) and hatching (thin and small lines of color that from a distance recompose the shape of the missing part).