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The Art of Conservation XIII. Twentieth-century Italian conservators and conservation theory
10/2017 | 1375 | 159
Pages: 812-819
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Author:
Ciatti, Marco (Ciatti, Marco)
Subjects
artists:
Brandi, Cesare / Procacci, Ugo / Vermehren, Augusto
dates:
1900-1999
museums and institutions:
Soprintendenza ai beni artistici e storici per le province di Firenze e Pistoia / Istituto Centrale del Restauro (ICR), Rome, Italy / Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence, Italy
subjects:
Conservation / Restoration (process) / Frescoes / Oil painting (technique) / Fragments
Illustrations
Attributed works:
47. The Annunciation, by Antonello da Messina. 1474. (Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse). Shown during conservation work directed by Cesare Brandi in 1942. (ISCR, Rome).
Attributed works:
48. Detail from The life of the Virgin, by Lorenzo da Viterbo. 1469 (Cappella Mazzatosta, S. Maria della Verità, Viterbo). Shown during conservation work directed by Cesare Brandi in 1948 (ISCR, Rome).
Attributed works:
49. Pala di Castelfranco, by Giorgione. c. 1503-05 (Cathedral, Castelfranco, Veneto). Shown after conservation by Mauro Pellicoli.
Attributed works:
50. Dino Dini and Umberto Baldini examining Fra Angelico's Crucifixion in the Museo di S. Marco, Florence.
Attributed works:
51. Tabernacle of the Mercatale, by Filippino Lippi. 1498 (Palazzo Pretorio, Prato). Shown after conservation by Leonetto Tintori. (Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
53. Crucifix by Cimabue, photographed before the flood in Florence on 4th November 1966. 1280s (Museo di S. Croce, Florence).
Attributed works:
54. Detail of Fig. 53 after conservation, showing 'abstract' tratteggio devised by Baldini.
Attributed works:
55. Fig. 53 shown after the flood. (Photograph Mondadori Portfolio/Giorgio Lotti/Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
56. Ugo Procacci, founder in 1932 of the Gabinetto Restauri of the Florentine Soprintendenza, examining Cimabue's Crucifix after the flood of 1966. (Photograph David Lees).
Western art unattributed:
46. Group examining a painting with Cesare Brandi, centre, 1957. (ISCR Rome).
Western art unattributed:
52. The Trinity, by Masaccio. 1427-28 (S. Maria Novella, Florence), after conservation by Leonetto Tintori and the OPD. (Bridgeman Images).