Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, Vincenzo Foppa, Madonna and Child between Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, torn mural

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Restoration report (01/1992-04/1992) and photographic documentation relating to the intervention on the torn fresco depicting Madonna and Child between Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist by Vincenzo Foppa, coming from the Church of S. Maria in Brera.

 

 

Facilitated description 
 

The work "Madonna with the Child between Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist" by Vincenzo Foppa 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 1485 preserved at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1992. 
The restorer cleaned the painting and removed the lime residue with a scalpel.
He performed the grouting (a white layer of gypsum and glue that extends inside a gap and forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions) of the central slit respecting the surrounding surface.
He fixed some particularly ruined areas.
He carried out the watercolor retouching with veils (transparent layer of color), reaching a balance between the areas with abrasions (scratches on the surface due to rubbing) and the best preserved ones.