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Restorations
After the restoration
The restoration of the two seventeenth century canvases representing the “Descend from the Cross” and the “Resurrection” ended on Friday November 5 th 2004 with the delivery ceremony attended by several parishioners and the president of the S. Apollonia Association, d. Gianmatteo Caputo.
On this occasion Anna Fornezza Girello and the restorer Giovanna Capovilla presented the different stages of the operation and its results:
- both works have been placed in the S. Salvador 's Church only after their creation, in fact they have been adapted by reducing both their height and their width;
- whatever their origin, so far unknown, their insertion in the Holy Sacrament chapel in S. Salvador preserved the consistency of the iconographical subject with the whole;
- the restoration has brought back to light whole figures and some details which could not be seen before: in the “Descent from the Cross” the crown of thorns on the left arm of the Cross, the hammer at the foot of the Cross, the rosary in the hands of the young client; in the “Resurrection” the armours and cloaks of the soldiers at the foot of the sepulchre have become evident;
- it has been necessary to decide for remaking completely the face of the Christ in the “Resurrection”, while the former remaking of the blessing hand has been kept.
Anonymous, Descent from the Cross (XVII century) particular
At the moment the two canvases have been put back in their place, at the sides of the Holy Sacrament altar, a secluded place for prayer and devotion, where both the Deposition and the Resurrection are to be seen several times: on the embossed doors of the tabernacles, on the sign of the School of the Holy Sacrament and on the lunette above the famous Supper at Emmaus.
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