Some people talk to plants.
Carnegie MuseumThe highest guardian of Ellen Baxter Talk to the painting she is restoring.
“You have to tell her that… she’ll look nice,” she says above, spreading the varnish into a 16th century portrait. Isabella de Medici Before you begin the tedious process of recovering from years of wear and tear Im-Pinting With a small brush assisted with a pipette of varnish and solvent.
Isabella had been waiting for such gentle attention that was hidden under the age of 19.th– A woman who portrays a sharp woman with a secular overdose formula Eleanor in Toledowife of Cosimo I de ‘Medici, Second Duke of Florence.
Louise Lippincottthe former art curator at CMA came across a work in the underground storage of the museum. The record of naming the artist Bronzino, a court painter of Cosimo I, has brought it to Ellen Baxter for a second opinion by Lippincott, who thought the painting was “awful.”
As Christina Luvalis I’ll write Carnegie MagazineBaxter is “an unusual mix of left and right talent,” with a Bachelor’s degree in art history, a minor in chemistry and physics, and a Master’s degree in art protection.
(her) views paintings in a different way than others. Not as a flat, static object, but as a three-dimensional structure layered like lasagna.
The moment she saw the oil painting claimed to be Toledo’s Eleanor, Baxter knew something was wrong. “Like a Victorian cookie tin lid,” she says, her face is so cute. Looking at the back of the painting she thanked her trusty Google search – stamps Francis Reed DamWho was working? National Portrait Gallery In London in the mid-1800s, as a “relainer”, transfers paintings from wooden panels to canvas mounts. The painstaking process involves sanding the panels from the back to the front and rubbing them down and glueing the painted surface layer onto a new canvas.
X-Ray confirmed her premonition and revealed the extra paint in this “lasagna”.
I began to carefully peel off the dirty varnish and Victorian paint in the area of ​​the face and hands of the portrait. (Carnegie banks Bronzino students. Alessandro Alorior someone from his circle. )
Lippincott also found a busy detective and left to Medici’s copy of a Vienna painting that matches the dress and hair exactly. So did she find out that the subject is Toledo’s daughter Eleanor? Isabella de Medician apple in her father’s eyes, and a girl from an infamous, ultimately unlucky party.
History Blog Draws an attractive portrait of this Maverick Princess:
Cosimo gave her extraordinary freedom for the nobles of her time. She ran her own family, and after Eleanor’s death in 1562, Isabella also ran her father’s. She threw the famous, loud party and spent her extravagant life. Her father always covered her debts and protected her from scrutiny, even as rumors of her lover and the excess women who destined for other society spread far and wide. Her favorite lover was said to be Troilo Orsini, cousin of her husband, Paolo.
After his father died in 1574, things quickly went downhill due to Isabella. Her brother Francesco is now a Grand Duke, and he was not interested in pampering his sister, Peccadillo. I don’t know exactly what happened, but in 1576 Isabella died at the Medici Villa in Seleto Gidi near Empoli. The official story announced by Francesco was that his 34-year-old sister died suddenly while washing her hair. The unofficial story is that she was strangled by her husband from revenge for her adultery and/or to clear the way he marries his own mistress, Vitoria Akoramboni.
Baxter pointed out that what ur n Isabella holds was not one of Leedham’s revisions, but not part of the original painting. A similarity to the ur that Mary Magdalene is often portrayed when anointing Jesus’ feet and leading her and Lippincott to redeem her image, leading her to speculate that it was added to Isabella’s request.
“This is literally a bad girl looking at the light,” Lippincott told Louvalis.
Despite her love for the subject of the liberated painting and her considerable skill as an artist, Baxter resisted the temptation to decorate beyond what she had found.
I’m not an artist. I am a parent. It is my job to repair damage and losses and not put myself in the painting.
Note: Previous versions of this post were published on our site in 2023.
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