Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Suardi Bartolomeo (Bramantino), Deposed Christ, Ripped mural

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Restoration report (05/1995-03/1997) and photographic documentation relating to the restoration of the fresco depicting the Christ deposed by Bartolomeo Suardi (Bramantino).

 

 

Facilitated description

 

The work "Christ deposed" by Bartolomeo Suardi called Bramantino, today known as "Christ in piety", 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) of 1475-1499 preserved at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

Originally it was located above the entrance door of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Milan.

The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1995-1997 under the direction of Alessandro Rovetta.

Before the restoration, the restorer studied the state of conservation of the work and previous restorations, including the restoration that had carried out the tear (transportation of the pictorial layer from the original support to a different support).

A label showed the date "1934" and the name of the restorer Oreste Silvestri.

The bibliography on the work reports that the restorer Ottemi Della Rotta carried out another restoration in 1956.

One of the main operations of Pinin Brambilla’s restoration was the consolidation (the operation that makes the surfaces more stable) of the pictorial film, which was at risk of falling in some places.

The restorer cleaned the painting from the yellowed paints and studied the different repaintings made by the previous restorers, which were not totally removed.