Lights on the dark background of the Deposition
The Deposition, one of the great paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who painted between 1602 and 1604, it has some graphic elements are not easily visible to the naked eye, as they are hidden by the darkness of the fund.
This was revealed by a study conducted by the Laboratory of diagnostics for conservation and restoration according to the Vatican Museums and published by ‘Osservatore Romano in an article by Ulderico Santamaria, Professor of Science and Technology of materials, and the architect Fabio Morresi.
The oil painting preserved in the Vatican Pinacoteca and commissioned for the funeral chapel of Peter Vittrice, Cloakroom of Pope Gregory XIII, in Santa Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova), Rome, have been carried out a series of sophisticated non-invasive.
In particular, using ultraviolet fluorescence induced, was revealed the presence in the work, with all the details of a fig tree placed in the background, behind the characters, the beautiful hair of Christ taken down from the cross and the door of his tomb, located at the left of the stage.
