Il restauratore dei dipinti

Abstract

Part I was originally published in Milan, 1866. Part II was completed 1873 and published posthumously in 1894, with an introduction by the author’s son. Both parts as a third edition, Milan, 1918, considerably re-edited. Ruhemann/Plesters has this to say: “A classic handbook dealing with all aspects of restoration in great detail. Much of the material remains still valid, but much has been made obsolete by later developments...In his favour, he criticizes: curators who are more interested in the labels under their pictures than in making detailed examinations or technical researches on them, ‘paintings made to look too new with excess of shiny varnish’; retouchings in oil, since they will go on darkening (he recommends water-color or tempera for retouching). - The cleaning of paintings, pp. 390-91. (Charles Wood 160/207)