Csornay Boldizsár - Dobos Zsuzsa - Varga Ágota - Zakariás János szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 97. (Budapest, 2002)

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

Repairs and aesthetic restoration Subsequent to the two vacuum pressings, the gaps were filled by a chalk-based substance (figs. 41-42). Their grading was continued after the stretching, aiming at developing a facture of stoppings that fits into their environment. As early as that, it was clear that this objective could be fulfilled only in the areas where a somewhat thicker paint layer was able to retain its original character, formed on the panel support. After an underpainting in aquarelle and tempera, we have coated the picture with two thin layers of a varnish composed of dammar resin and Paraloid B 67 synthetic resin. The oil-resin inpainting was followed by a three-month period of hardening. When it was over, a further dammar varnish coating had been applied to the painting, and finally finished the aesthetic restoration by some smaller corrections. As the several but smallreaching paint losses, caused by worm infest, did not affect sections of compositional importance, the question of the desirable degree of aesthetic restoration did not aroused (figs. 43-45). The restoration allowed this sixteenth-century painting to regain its original aesthetic values and to get nearer to its former impression; meanwhile, its physical condition has also been reinforced. KORNÉLIA FORRAI - MARIANNA HOÓS - ÉVA SOMOS Translated by Axel Vécsey