Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, Lazzaro Bastiani, Scenes from the life of St. Jerome, Paintings on panel

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Restoration report (01/1994-06/1994) concerning the intervention on 3 paintings depicting Scenes from the life of St. Jerome by Lazarus Bastiani.

Works supervision: Arrigoni.

 

 

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The work "Scenes of the life of St. Jerome" by Lazzaro Bastiani is a group of three paintings on panel of about 1485 preserved at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
Today it is known as three separate works: "St. Jerome in the Desert", "St. Jerome Bringing the Lion to the Convent" and "The Death of St. Jerome".
The works were part of the "Pala di San Gerolamo", preserved in the cathedral of Asolo, in the province of Treviso.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1994 under the direction of Luisa Arrigoni.
He fixed the raised pictorial layers and removed the repaintings.
He carried out the final pictorial intervention with hatch techniques (thin and small lines of color that from a distance recompose the shape of the missing part) and veils (transparent layer of color) to preserve the original appearance of the work.