Pinin Brambilla Barcilon Archive
Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, Giovanni and Gentile Bellini, The Preaching of St. Mark in Alexandria, Painting on canvas
Description Relationship with studies and handwritten notes; phototypes (positive, negative).
consistency
Quantity 1|73|88|2|1
Type positive document(s) on paper up to 21x29 cm, negative on film up to 6x6 cm, slide(s) 13x18 cm, non-standard phototype(s)
Description restoration report.48 positive b/w 18x24 cm, 1 positive b/w 20x30 cm, 6 positive colour 18x24 cm, 4 positive colour 18x19 cm, 1 positive colour 10x20 cm, 13 positive b/w 10.5x15 cm. 28 negatives on film 10x12 cm, 59 negatives 6x6 cm, 1 negative 5x5 cm. 2 colour slide 13x18 cm, 20 colour slides with frame 5x5 cm positive b/w 21x46 cm.
Reordering sign
APBB_CTRS_F85_6; APBB_CTRS_C17_6
Restoration report and photographic documentation related to the restoration of the painting St. Mark's sermon in Alexandria, Egypt by Giovanni and Gentile Bellini.
It also contains: 2 copies of letters addressed to Rosalba Tardito Amerio concerning the state of play (30/04/1985, 03/09/1996); handwritten notes relating to the samples taken (21/12/1987); color analysis carried out by the Polytechnic of Milan (12/05/1986).
Facilitated description
The work ‘La predica di S. Marco in Alessandria d’ Egitto’ by Giovanni Bellini and Gentile Bellini, now known as ‘Predica di San Marco in una piazza di Alessandria d’ Egitto’, is a painting on canvas from 1504 to 1507 in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1985-1988 under the direction of Rosalba Tardito Amerio.
The restorer has redecorated the support (application of a reinforcement canvas on the back of a painting).
It replaced the old frame (structure that supports the canvas of the painting), solving problems of adhesion of the pictorial film.
During cleaning (cleaning the surface of the artwork from dirt deposited over time), it addressed the fragility of the material and the subtlety of the colours.
He discovered and removed old retouches and restorations no longer suitable.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla identified plastering (a white layer of plaster and glue that stretches inside a gap and forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions) and previous repairs that altered the original appearance.
It has integrated (reconstructed the material or color of the missing parts) the degraded areas, maintaining consistency with the original pictorial layer.
He has made additions (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) to watercolor and paint.
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