BOTTICELLI IN ESZTERGOM
BOTTICELLI IN ESZTERGOM

Summary/Abstract: The news was first announced at an international conference in Florence in 2007 entitled Humanism and Renaissance in Hungary. Painting conservator Zsuzsanna Wierdl and I presented the major findings of art historical and conservation research which has been underway in Esztergom since 2000. The restorer has been cleaning the Renaissance frescoes discovered in 1934–38 of the marks of later interventions. These include, first and foremost, cement fillings applied during the excavation, petrified grains of soil remnants on the surface, the drawn and painted additions from the restorations of the 1950s and 1970s, and the paraloid coating. The exposed representations thus reveal the painter’s original ideas in a manner never before seen by art historians.

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