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\n\tA 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice\u2019s vaunted Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia will be restored behind glass\u2014giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process\u2014over a two-year period estimated to cost \u20ac500,000 (around $580,000). The work will be conducted in what the Gallerie Dell\u2019Accademia described as \u201ca construction site open to the public that will allow visitors to closely follow all the phases of the conservation of this masterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tPainted between 1478 and the late 1480s, the so-called San Giobbe Altarpiece<\/em> marks \u201ca decisive turning point in the evolution of the Venetian altarpiece, according to the Gallerie dell-Accademia, which has undertaken the restoration in collaboration with the international non-profit Venetian Heritage. (The work\u2019s official title, for the record: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Musician Angels and Saints Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic, Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse<\/em>.)<\/p>\n \n\tAs reported in Artnet News<\/em>, the altarpiece was moved from San Giobbe church in the 1810s for an earlier round of restoration after three centuries of wetness put it in peril. Regarding the recent round of work, \u201cThe problems are fundamentally two-fold. First, the painting bears long cracks across its surface due to temperature fluctuations causing the wood to expand and contract. Second, the painting\u2019s original pigments have changed color over the centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a statement, Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia accentuated the positive: \u201cRestoration, usually carried out in separate and private spaces, reveals its complexity and delicacy, becoming an integral part of the visitor experience but also an opportunity for discovery and shared knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe institution also noted: \u201cBetween the 19th and 20th centuries, restorations, structural interventions, and pest control treatments were carried out, aimed at addressing recurring issues related to the stability of the wooden support and the paint layer. Some solutions adopted in the past, while meeting current needs, have over time generated new tensions and critical issues, necessitating a complete rethinking of intervention methods.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/bellini-altarpiece-venice-restoration-1234778766\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-463975291-crop.jpg?w=1024″] A 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice\u2019s vaunted Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia will be restored behind glass\u2014giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process\u2014over a two-year period estimated to cost \u20ac500,000 (around $580,000). The work will be conducted in what the Gallerie Dell\u2019Accademia described as \u201ca construction site open to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1844533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}