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Exhibits
Restoration of paintings
by 17th-century Dutch masters
In 2005 the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Easel Paintings completed
restoration of Emanuel de Witte's painting of a Square in an Italian
City (1664), Lambert Domer's (1622/23-1700) painting Landscape
with a Tower and House in the Wood (1646) by Jacob van Ruisdael.
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Restoration of a
musical automaton with a clock by G. Torekler
In the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Clocks and Musical Mechanisms,
restoration was carried out on a musical clock by Roentgen and Kinzing
- a grandfather clock made for Louis XVI in the 1780s in Neuwied, Germany,
and a musical automaton with a clock by G. Torekler.
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Restoration of the
tapestry The Calvary
In 2005 the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Textiles restoration
work was carried out on the tapestry The Calvary (France, late
15th - early 16th centuries.
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Second restoration
of the wall painting of Bodhisattva Manjushri with a Retinue from the
cave monastery of Bezeklik
In 2005 the State Hermitage's Laboratory for Scientific Restoration
of Monumental Painting performed a whole complex of restoration work
on the 11th-century painting of Bodhisattva Manjushri with a Retinue
from the cave monastery of Bezeklik (Eastern Turkestan)
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Restoration of Jacob
Xavery's graphic work The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard
In 2005 the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Works of Graphic
Art completed a unique restoration of Jacob Xaverius's (1736-1769) Parable
of the Labourers in the Vineyard.
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Restoration of the
painting by Jacopo del Sellaio Sts Francis and Jerome Kneeling Before
the Dead Christ and the Russian icon The Theophany
In 2005 the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Tempera Painting
completed restoration of a painting by the Italian artist Jacopo del
Sellaio, Sts Francis and Jerome Kneeling Before the Dead Christ,
a work of the 15th-century Florentine school (Igor Permyakov, art restorer)
and of the Russian icon The Theophany, dating from the 17th century,
from the Northern school of icon painting (Svetlana Osipova, art restorer).
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Restoration of the
Vajravarahi icon from the Khara-Khoto collection of paintings
(12th-14th centuries)
In 2005 the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Oriental Painting
completed the restoration of the Vajravarahi icon from the Khara-Khoto
collection of paintings (12th-14th centuries). Restoration work was
performed by the staff members of the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration
of Oriental Painting including the laboratory director, art restorer
of the highest category Yelena Shishkova, and art restorer of the second
category Karina Kashina.
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Restoration of the
fresco The Virgin Hodegetria and Child (14th century)
Chersonesus Museum-Reserve, Ukraine
In April 2005 art restorers of the State Hermitage's Laboratory for Scientific
Restoration of Monumental Painting Yelena Stepanova and Artem Stepanov
were sent to Chersonesus (Crimea) to continue the restoration work as
creative assistance to the Chersonesus Museum-Reserve. As a result, the
fresco took on solidity, wholeness and an appearance suitable for public
showing.
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