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Description: The Education of the Virgin, detail of X-radiograph

TitleThe Education of the Virgin, detail of X-radiograph

Creator nameVelázquez, Diego

Creator nationality/cultureSpanish

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1617

Object typePainting

DimensionsUnknown

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/576

Accession number1900.43

SubjectsRadiographyPainting--TechniquePainting, Spanish

StatusShows a series of vertical and horizontal indentations/scratches on Saint Anne's proper-left cheek and jaw; some illegible radio-opaque shapes in Saint Anne's chin and neck; and at top left, the orignial contour of the saint's head

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The Education of the Virgin: A Conservation Narrative and Technical Examination

Carmen Albendea and Ian McClure and Anikó Bezur and Jens Stenger

The Young Velázquez: The Education of the Virgin Restored

In the summer of 2012, the conservation and technical examination of the Education of the Virgin, a painting attributed to Diego Velázquez by John Marciari in his article of 2010, began in earnest. The technical examination, undertaken by the Yale University Art Gallery’s Conservation Department and the research laboratory of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of...

Author

Carmen Albendea and Ian McClure and Anikó Bezur and Jens Stenger

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Related print edition pages: pp.33-55

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00167.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19538&redirecttoanchor=44850

Chapter subject tags:Art--Conservation and restorationPainting, SpanishVelázquez, Diego, 1599-1660Art--Technique--History

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