Exhibits

The Restoration of Titian's painting The Flight into Egypt
This work, painted in the early 1500s, came into the Hermitage between 1763 and 1774. In the second half of the 19th century it was moved to the Gatchina palace, from where it returned to the Hermitage in 1924. Ever since 1999 the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Easel Oil Paintings (R.T. Grunina, director) has been carrying out a complex restoration of this canvas. In 2001 a set of measures was completed whereby the lacquer film on the entire surface of the painting was thinned and evened out, while later additions from various periods which lay on the surface or in the upper strata of the lacquer coating were removed.
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