Galleria Sabauda, Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino), Eleonora di Toledo, Painting on panel

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Restoration report (07/2010-09/2010) and photographic documentation relating to the intervention carried out on the painting depicting Eleanor of Toledo by Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino). The restoration involved both the wooden support, entrusted to the restorer Roberto Buda, and the pictorial layers, on which Pinin Brambilla Barcilon intervened. The work was restored on the occasion of the exhibition "Bronzino, painter and poet at the Medici court" at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (24/09/2010-23/01/2011).

It also contains: ministerial authorisation for transport and record of movement of the work (06/07/2010). Pinin Brambilla restored the painting in 2010

Works supervision: Paola Astrua.

 

 

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The work ‘Eleonora di Toledo’ by Agnolo di Cosimo known as Bronzino, now known as ‘Ritratto di gentildonna’ (Portrait of a Gentlewoman), is a painting on panel from around 1550 to 1555 and is housed in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 2010 under the direction of Paola Astrua.
The restoration was carried out on the occasion of an exhibition organized at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
The restorer cleaned the painting by removing the protective paint.
The paint removed was very yellowed and dated back to a previous intervention.
The lower edge of the painting had plastering (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) in tune with the colour of the background area, made during a previous restoration.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla has carried out the plastering of the gaps (a white layer of plaster and glue that extends inside a gap and forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions) and has repainted them with a neutral color.
This choice allows you to recognize where the original painting is not present.