"Restoring a Masterpiece: Castiglione Conservation Project"
1999-09-14 until 1999-10-24
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN, USA United States of America

This exhibition will showcase of the Institute’s ongoing and active conservation activities with the Upper Midwest Conservation Association (UMCA). Paintings conservators Joan Gorman and David Marquis will conduct a major conservation treatment of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s The Immaculate Conception with Saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua during public viewing hours. The working space includes multiple viewing areas to promote interaction between the public and the conservators. The entrance gallery will include biographical panels on the artist and commission, several prints from the Institute’s collection, photographs of preparatory drawings and oil sketches now at Windsor Castle and related works by Castiglione.

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