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FORRAI, KORNÉLIA HOÓS, MARIANNA-SOMOS, ÉVA: The Research and Restoration of a Painting on Panel, Transferred to Canvas, by Domenico Puligo. Madonna and Child with Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch

26 28). Infrared examinations provided us with further information regarding the exact extensions of the repainted areas and documentation of the pentimenti at the foot and hand of the Infant Christ. The cross-sections and permanent preparations that were produced using the samples collected previously were examined under a microscope. We continued examinations of this kind all through the processes of cleaning and transferring, and the findings were instrumental in throwing new light on the technique used in the present painting as well as the nineteenth-century methods of transfer and restoration. The picture was executed on a wooden panel. Observation of the back surface of the detached painting showed that the original panel may have been constituted of either three planks, each being ca. 50-60 cm wide, or five pieces of varied measures, ca. 30^10 cm wide, respectively. The height of the panel was 200 cm. The wood splinters that have been preserved by chance beneath the paint laminae slipped under each other along the cracks on the surface of the painting allowed us to specify the species of tree the timber had been made of. The microscopic investigations 29. The remnants of the wooden panel on the overlapped surfaces after detaching between 1823-97. Stereomicroscopic photograph, magnification x0.75 30. Cross section of the body of the wood. Stereomicroscopic photograph, magnification x5