Restores in the Italian city of Florence began a 6 -month project to clean and reveal the niqab digitally from an oil painting that embodies a semi -naked woman who has long been controlled by Artemisa Gentski, which is one of the most prominent women in the history of Italian art.
And as the newspaper “The Guardian”, Gentski met a renewed popularity in the era of the “Me Too” campaign, which denounces and condemns sexual abuse and harassment, and depicted her painting, “the symbolism of mile”, a naked female in the natural size, believed to be a subjective image of it, and it has been covered with curtains and covers Circular after about 70 years of Gentski, he drew in 1616.
In turn, Linda Falcon, coordinator of the Artemisia Up Close project, said: “Through it, we can talk about the importance of restoring artistic work, and the importance of returning women’s stories to the forefront. ” Allegory of Inclination was originally assigned to the home of the Michael Anglo Punareti family, son The brother of the famous artist, the building later became the CASA Buonaroti Museum, and the painting was shown until recently on the ceiling in a doctrine.
Artimisa Gentaski painting
When Elizabeth Wake, the main restoration official, removed the painting in late September, 400 -year -old dust erupted, and the Wick -UV restoration team uses UV light, symbolic photography and X -rays to distinguish Gentileschi brush from those of the artist who covered the nud, where it can The public may see the ongoing project in the museum.
“Restores will not be able to remove curtains due to the risk of destroying the painting below it, but they will instead make a digital version of the original version, which will be displayed from September 2023,” the report says.
“Gentski” arrived in Florence shortly after the trial of her rapist in Rome, during which the 17 -year -old girl was forced to testify for the ropes restricted about her fingers, which were gradually tightened in a test of her sincerity, as she had to undergo a physical examination in the courtroom Behind a curtain to make sure that she is no longer a virgin, and in the end he was convicted of her rapist and sentenced to eight months in prison.
For her part, Wake said: “It was possible for another person to crush this experience, but the Artzia bounce back and come to Florence . . . I got this wonderful commission to draw a fully -length naked character of the Casa Punarethi roof . . . So, I think she says to people, this What I can do. “.
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