2017
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2017
The scientific committee meets to discuss the progress of the work
Analysis with fluorescence X are useful in searching for the inorganic materials that make up the pictorial layer and the preparation
SEPTEMBER 2017
L’efficacia del laser sul monocromo si misura anche con le apparecchiature più sofisticate
David Alan Brown, Curator of Italian Painting at the National Gallery of Art of Washington, visits the site
JULY-AUGUST 2017 – ON HOLIDAYS
JUNE 2017
After a delicate and complicated cleaning, a pictorial retouching test of the gaps is carried out in one of the lunettes: what is going to be the final outcome?
MARCH – APRIL 2017
The restoration of Sala delle Asse continues on three levels. From below: the headband descialbo never investigated, the laser cleaning of the wall and the lunettes
FEBRUARY 2017
The laser is proving increasingly useful in the “descialbo” phase: there emerge some signs of charcoal
Superintendent Marco Ciatti of OPD visits to the site to check the status of the conservation Monochrome
JANUARY 2017
Anna Brunetto cleans out with laser from the El.En. Company. The laser is used to remove the layers of plaster searching for the original painting on the walls, and it is used to find Leonardo’s colour on the lunettes