Milan, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Venetian Master, San Benedetto penitent on Mount Subiaco, Painting on panel

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Restoration report and photographic documentation related to the restoration of the painting St. Benedict penitent on Mount Subiaco (Maestro veneto). It includes a second draft of the report, presumably a previous one.

 

 

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The work "San Benedetto penitente sul monte Subiaco", now known as "San Benedetto tentato nel deserto presso Subiaco" and attributed to Nicolò di Pietro, is a painting on panel of about 1415-1420 preserved at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1988.
It cleaned, disinfected and treated the support against xylophagous insects (insects that feed on wood and damage the work).
He fixed the obvious lifts and removed the oxidized paints (altered and modified with color change for the creation of a layer on the surface usually caused by unsuitable humidity and temperature conditions), discovering the original veiling (transparent layer of color).
It has eliminated retouching and gilding of old restorations.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla has plastered the gaps (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). 
He performed the pictorial integration (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) with hatch technique (thin and small lines of color that from a distance recompose the shape of the missing part).