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september 24, 2014 - Ministero dei beni culturali

Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi: completed the first stage of restoration

Yesterday morning, at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and Restoration Laboratories in the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, the results of the first stage of the restoration work of Leonardo da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi were presented with the attendance of Cristina Acidini, superintendent for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and for the Museums of the City of Florence, Marco Ciatti, superintendent of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Antonio Natali, director of the Uffizi Gallery and Maria Vittoria Rimbotti, president of the Amici degli Uffizi association.

In November 2011, thanks to the support of the Amici degli Uffizi, Leonardo’s masterpiece, panel painting depicting the Adoration of the Magi (246x243 cm), begun in 1481 for the monastery of San Donato in Scopeto and then left unfinished, had been moved to the restoration Laboratories of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure at the Fortezza da Basso.

During the first year the artwork has been subjected to a comprehensive series of diagnostic tests to fully understand the conservation state of the wooden support (that has undergone dimensional changes over time) and of the preliminary painted surface that Leonardo had begun to compose.

The subsequent first stage of the restoration intervention, focusing on the painted area, will be completed within the summer of next year.

This will be followed by the restoration of the wooden support, which is necessary in order to ensure its solidity and to avoid negative repercussions on the painting itself.

The painting will presumably be returned to the Uffizi by the end of 2015, showcased in the newly refurbised Room 15 of the Gallery.

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