Pinin Brambilla Barcilon Archive
Milan, Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio, Clipeo di S. Ambrogio, Stucco
Description Report with 1 copy, mapping and handwritten draft; phototypes (positive, negative).
consistency
Quantity 1|5|6
Type positive document(s) on paper up to 21x29 cm.negative document(s) on film up to 10x15 cm.
Description restoration report 4 positive b/w 18x24 cm, 1 positive colour 18x24 cm 3 negatives on film 10x12 cm, 3 negatives on film 6x6 cm.
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APBB_CTRS_F108_4
Restoration report and photographic documentation relating to the intervention on the Clipeus of St. Ambrose in polychrome stucco.
Works supervision: Sandrina Bandera.
Facilitated description
The work "Clipeo di Sant'Ambrogio" is a stucco sculpture of the second half of the 900 AD preserved at the Diocesan Museum in Milan.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1977-1980 under the direction of Sandrina Bandera.
The restorer removed the nineteenth-century repaintings from the incarnates, from the gilding of the frame, from the black color of the background and from the red of the dress.
He did not remove the sixteenth-century repaintings.
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