Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, Martin Knoller, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin into Heaven, Painting on canvas

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Restoration report (05/1993-06/1993) and photographic documentation relating to the intervention on the Sketch for altarpiece the painting depicting theAssumption of the Blessed Virgin into Heaven by Martin Knoller.

Works supervision: Pescarmona.

 

 

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The work "Assumption of the Blessed Virgin into Heaven" by Martin Knoller is a painting on canvas from 1788 preserved at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1994 under the direction of Daniele Pescarmona. 
The restorer has removed the particle (deposits of dust and dirt, due to atmospheric agents) from the support.
He spread a substance against xylophagous insects (insects that feed on wood and damage the work) on the frame (structure that supports the canvas of the painting).
He removed the heavy paint with special solvents, revealing brighter colors and color contrasts.
He eliminated the repaintings along the upper margin and in the blue mantle of the Madonna with a scalpel, finding small gaps (missing parts) and leaks of the original veils (transparent layer of color).
He carried out the plastering (a 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 integrated painting (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) with the hatching technique (thin and small lines of color that from a distance recompose the shape of the missing part) and veiling (transparent layer of color).