Episode 6: Artemisia UpClose Restoration

"A new solution for old retouching" features the Allegory of Inclination an oil-on-canvas painting produced by Artemisia Gentileschi (1615-1617) for the gallery ceiling at Casa Buonarroti, in Florence. "We decided to remove the brown overpaint on the figure's belly, elbows and knee because, after diagnostic testing, we determined that this brown retouching was applied after Il Volterrano covered Artemisia's nude allegorical figure," says head conservator Elizabeth Wicks, while explaining this phase of the process. Click image above, to watch.