“The careful restoration of the ‘Deposition of the Holy Trinity’ by Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro da Vicchio 1395–1455), a masterpiece preserved in the Museo di San Marco in Florence, restores to the work depth, perspective and brightness. Features hidden so far in a flattened and opaque appearance that did not do credit to the real workmanship of the painting.
The intervention, which lasted two years and was overseen in the pictorial part by Lucia Biondi, recovered with a cleaning ‘the transparency and brightness values of the paint of Angelico, which — explains a text — appeared diminished in the volumes and perspective’, and ‘the vision of the artist’ who ‘rich in subtleties of light and color and great sensitivity to the natural datum, finds a vertex in the evocative landscape that is the backdrop to the sacred scene’. All this, before restoration, was completely devoid of depth and the scene, although majestic, suggested gloom due to the deterioration of the colors.”
