Isabella de’ Medici by Bronzino

https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/art-conservator-restores-a-painting-of-the-doomed-party-girl-isabella-de-medici.html

Isabella had been waiting a long time for such tender attention, concealed beneath a 19th-century overpainting depicting a daintier featured woman reputed to be Eleanor of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the second Duke of Florence.

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Rand@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

For those who dont know, the ‘cleaned’ painting on the right looks so different because they not only removed varnish — but also old victorian paint that was painted over the original painting