The Alla Prima Portrait Excerpts.mov

Scientific reproductions, or the works performed with the utmost respect to the many technical differences adopted by the masters of the past, can be aged and patinated, allowing future restorers to learn the process of restoration without putting original artworks at risk. By this, we do not mean that a reproduction should be considered a substitute for a real work of art. We believe it can configure itself as a tool of knowledge of the material aspect of an art object. Cesare Brandi says that only the matter of the work of art is to be restored, but there is no separation between the matter and the image.