The St John’s CoCathedral Foundation has unveiled the restoration of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary, a majestic and large painting which was in dire need of intervention. The painting was in ...

Earlier Renaissance painting would have been marked by symmetries, balance and much more “proportion.” Bitti’s “Coronation of the Virgin” dates from the late 1500s.

Before the entire “Coronation of the Virgin” or any other work of art can be treated with a probiotic, more research must be done to ensure there’s no risk of damaging the canvas.

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Called Coronation of the Virgin, the painting is believed to be a masterwork of early Baroque artist Carlo Bononi and has hung on the church ceiling since the 1600s, where it remained until 2012. That ...