Processing
Pictography in fresco on lime "Essential" category. Hand retouched with oxide-based earths. Made on the base while still fresh for exceptional durability. Working with magnifying glass, hot chalk reliefs, gilding in pure gold leaf. Gold leaf gilding.
History
The "Madonna and Child Jesus" was painted by Pinturicchio in the same year, 1501, as the frescoes for the Baglioni Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore in Spello. The work is discovered upon entering a votive chapel to the left of the altar and is housed in a wooden aedicule frame. Pinturicchio executed the painting using the fresco technique, working with lapis lazuli earth for the robes and with extensive gilding, now largely lost, in the haloes, star and other parts of the robes. Bottega Tifernate studied and photographed the fresco in all its parts and reproduces it following the technique of the original.
Pinturicchio, Madonna col bambino (ESSENTIAL)