After a long restoration has returned to the Hermitage "Annunciation" Cima da Conegliano

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After a long restoration has returned to the Hermitage "Annunciation" Cima da Conegliano

picture of Cima da Conegliano "Annunciation" in the State Hermitage paintings by Cima da Conegliano "Annunciation." A masterpiece, dated 1495 year, he returned to the exposition, after six years of restoration.

"Already the contemporaries considered the" Annunciation "one of the highest artistic achievements of Cima. It is no accident that this picture takes pride of place among the masterpieces of the Hermitage "- said the director of the St. Petersburg Museum of Michael Piotrowski.

During his more than five hundred of existence "Annunciation" many times subjected to restoration. "The first documented radical operation was done in 1873, when the Hermitage restorer A. Sidorov shifted from a tree pattern on the canvas. As a result of painting is much damaged and in some places has been lost, the true art Cima was hidden under layers of many ", - said Head of the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Easel Painting Victor Korobov.

To restore the original appearance of the picture, we had to get rid of alien layers. Work on the disclosure of painting lasted four years. "The process of restoration was extremely difficult. The main difficulty was to determine which layers of paint in the painting is alien, and which belong to the wrist of the Cima. To do this, chemical analysis was made of layers of painting. On the canvas was left with only the author's work. And since the removal of excess required great precision, was used in a powerful microscope, "- said Korobov.

According to him, and now returned to the true picture of the author's decision. "Colours" Annunciation "were clean, bright and vivid. They correspond to samples of paintings of the Renaissance ", - said Head of the Laboratory.

Recall that the Cima da Conegliano, which is considered a student of the artist Giovanni Bellini, born about 1459 in the town of Conegliano. He worked as a master, mostly around Venice. The lyrical paintings da Conegliano distinguishes the noble simplicity of the images and the harmonious relationship between man and nature.

In "Annunciation," the artist showed himself a master of detail. On the canvas visible veins on the marble columns, arched windows, pillars and canopy designs, Hebrew inscription on the frieze of the canopy ... Thanks to the restoration, the painting has opened one more thing. Bottom of the canvas stood out letters - the remnants of the signature of the wizard. Virtual reconstruction of Cima autograph can be seen on a separate plate, which is located next to the picture.

[Игорь Гурьев]

Ahrenet ...

How is it was written by the would-be restorers!

Eeriness.


They say something like that done with the "Sistine Madonna" by Raphael, turning it into a painting of the 19th century.