Städel Museum Conserve a Gandolfi Oil Sketch

June 18 2021

Picture: Städel Museum

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt have published an interesting blog on the recent conservation of an oil sketch of Saints Petronius of Bologna and Bernardin of Siena by Gaetano Gandolfi. This sketch, which dates to c.1774, was acquired by the museum in 1920 and had been in storage for several decades. The removal of old varnish has revealed the fresh colouring and has been further enhanced by a new period Italian frame. Gandolfi's sketch will now hang alongside other eighteenth-century Italian masterpieces from the collection, including works by Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Pompeo Batoni and Alessandro Magnasco.

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