Turin, Galleria Sabauda, Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino), Cosimo I De’ Medici, Painting on panel

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Restoration report in summary form and photographic documentation relating to the intervention carried out on the painting depicting Cosimo I De’ Medici by Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino). The photographs illustrate the phases before, during and after the restoration of the work.

 

 

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The work ‘Cosimo I De’ Medici’ by Agnolo di Cosimo known as Bronzino (and Aids) is a painting on a panel from the mid-1500s, housed at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1982.
Previous interventions had widened vertically and thinned the table.
Under the yellowed paints there were two previous repaintings, especially in the background and at the edges.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla has recovered the inscription in golden characters on a gray background and the original colors of the robe and fur.
In the dark tones of the fur there were small cracks.
A nineteenth-century restoration added a thin white line, changing the lower edge of the painting and the positioning of the left hand.