I. V. Guruleva, L. V. Lapshin

Perveishii v svoem iskusstve. Andrei Mitrokhin —osnovatel' ermitazhnoi shkoly restavratsii zhivopisi (The first in his art: Andrei Mitrokhin, the founder of the Hermitage school of conservation); . —

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2024. Sewn pb. During the first four decades of the nineteenth century Mitrokhin worked on saving paintings that were deteriorating; his notable achievement was developing the transfer technique which could save a painted image on a deteriorating ground. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition publishes paintings that Mitrokhin worked on, most painted in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Netherlands and Italy. Most often the technique involved transfer from wood to canvas. 65 p., 24 cm, approx. 40 color illus., Rus. with title page and summary in ENGLISH. Item #5018
ISBN: 9785907653627

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