Autumn/Winter 2022
Restoration Conversations is a digital magazine spotlighting the achievements of women in history and today. We produce two issues a year: Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter
Restoration Conversations is a digital magazine spotlighting the achievements of women in history and today. We produce two issues a year: Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter
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38 Restoration Conversations • <strong>Autumn</strong> / <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
CHRISTIAN LEVETT<br />
Firstly, the painting looks to be over five feet<br />
high, so when you see it way above you on the<br />
ceiling, you don’t get a sense of how big the<br />
painting actually is; it just looks like another one<br />
of the panels. The scale of it is impressive, once it<br />
comes down. I think you also get a sense of how<br />
fantastic it’s going to look once the restoration<br />
is completed. Of course, when it is up high, it’s<br />
dark… it has withstood the test of time the last<br />
400 years – because they don’t think it has been<br />
moved during that period.<br />
When you see it up close, you get the feeling<br />
immediately as to what an amazing project this is.<br />
The other fantastic and slightly unexpected thing<br />
is that, as they took it out of the ceiling frame and<br />
brought it down, 400 years of dust fell from the<br />
canvas, and that, in and of itself, was a spectacular<br />
moment. So, a whole array of different things<br />
impressed me… it’s tremendously exciting! RC
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