US EditionVatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgment’
The Vatican Museums’ restoration team removes calcium lactate buildup from the fresco, aiming to reveal Michelangelo’s original vivid colors amid 20,000 daily visitors.
- The Vatican is cleaning a chalky white film of salt that has accumulated over Michelangelo's masterpiece 'The Last Judgment' fresco since its last major renovation three decades ago.
- The cleaning operation involves applying sheets of Japanese rice paper dipped in distilled water to remove the salt film, revealing vibrant colors and details of the original artwork.
- The salty film is caused by the nearly 25,000 visitors who pass through the Vatican Museums each day, emitting sweat and humidity that reacts with the calcium carbonate on the wall.
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Suspended between heaven and hell that Michelangelo imagined, the restorers of the Vatican Museums are trying to clean the imposing mural of The Final Judgment, the masterpiece that presides over the Sistine Chapel. They are removing a whitish layer that has been deposited on the pictorial surface and has extinguished the vibrancy of the figures since the last restoration, which was made just over thirty years ago.
This Saturday, February 28, the Vatican Museums organized a meeting with journalists to illustrate the advances of conservation ...
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Washington TimesVatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgment’
Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” is getting a facial.
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Vatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgment'
Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” is getting a facial. The Vatican Museums on Saturday unveiled how restorers are removing a chalky white film of salt that has accumulated over the fresco since its last major renovation three decades ago.
Historian reflects on Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’ with Sistine Chapel restoration underway
ROME (OSV News) — The Vatican Museums announced that restoration work has begun on Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” in the Sistine Chapel, a fresco an art historian describes as “a clarion call to the cardinals of what it means to be Catholic.” “The cleaning of Michelangelo’s magnificent fresco has begun,” Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums, announced Feb. 23. The restoration, the first major cleaning of the fresco since 1994, is …
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