Over the last years, there have been numerous restorations performed on the pictures of the collection, many of which were in poor condition. A certain number of these interventions were carried out on pictures which had undergone repainting between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for motives of censorship. The decision was taken to remove these overpaintings, which in many cases covered well-preserved areas.

In addition to Venus and Mars by Paris Bordon, already freed from additions of this type several years ago, the following have recently been definitively cleaned: Juno places the eyes of Argos in the tail of the peacock by Orazio Riminaldi (ICR), the Magdalen by Jacob van Loo and the Magdalen by Pasquale Chiesa (Giantomassi-Zari), while still continuing is the restoration of the important Putti Fighting by Guido Reni (ICR), which in its time was rendered more moral.
Raffaello, Ritratto di Beazzano e Navagero

Over the next few years other pictures in the collection which suffered treatment of this sort will be checked and, probably, cleaned in order to restore them to their original state.

By Andrea De Marchi