Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, Bernardino Lanino, Eternal Father, Ripped mural

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Restoration report (05/1995-11/1995) and photographic documentation relating to the intervention on the torn fresco depicting the Eternal Father by Bernardino Lanino.

Works Directorate: Binaghi.

 

 

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The work "Eternal Father" by Bernardino Lanino, now known as "Eternal Father and Angels Giving a Crown", 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 about 1550 preserved at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the painting in 1995 under the direction of Maria Teresa Binaghi Olivari.
It replaced the support of the painting to eliminate the relaxation of the frame (structure that supports the canvas of the painting) and rejoin the cuts.
He cleaned and redecorated (application of a reinforcement canvas on the back of a painting) the work with thinner canvases.
The restorer has cleaned the pictorial surface.
He removed a grayish veil (transparent layer of color) that covered the painting, revealing the original layer.
Finally, he removed the grouting (a white layer of gypsum and glue that stretches inside a gap and forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions) unsuitable and carried out a reintegration (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) with watercolor.