Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, Master of the Sforza Altarpiece, Madonna and Child Enthroned between St. Ambrose, St. Gregory the Great, St. Augustine, St. Jerome and the family of Ludovico il Moro, Painting on panel

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Restoration report (start of work: 09/1989) and photographic documentation relating to the intervention on the painting Madonna and Child Enthroned between St. Ambrose, St. Gregory the Great, St. Augustine, St. Jerome and the family of Louis the Moor the Master of the Sforza Altarpiece.

It also contains: "Analytical study of the color of the Sforza altarpiece - Milan - Pinacoteca di Brera", realized by the Politenico di Milano; 2 letters from the Superintendence relating to the sending of documentation on the restoration of the painting (1989).

 

 

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The work "Madonna with Child Enthroned between St. Ambrose, St. Gregory the Great, St. Augustine, St. Jerome and the family of Ludovico il Moro" by Giovanni Angelo Mirofoli (Master of the Sforza Altarpiece), now known as "Madonna Enthroned with the Child, the Doctors of the Church and the family of Ludovico il Moro (Pala Sforzesca)", is a painting on panel of 1495 preserved at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1989.
He cleaned the painting by removing dirt and dust.
Removed the paint and treated the dark and golden color layers.
It repaired the abrasions (scratches on the surface due to rubbing) and losses of the original veils (transparent layer of color).
The restorer repaired the fragmented margins.
He replaced the groutings (white layer of plaster and glue that stretches inside a lack and that forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions).
He applied a paint to rebalance the color and restore the missing parts with paint colors and hatch technique (thin and small lines of color that from a distance recompose the shape of the missing part).
It has preserved two small panels to testify to the conditions prior to the restoration.