32 The Annunciation retable and the blue areas is high and could be softened by covering the white borders. This approach is in keeping with the desire to highlight the aesthetic qualities of the retable without the need of regilding and repainting. A special situation arose regarding additions or the extent of the retouching in the area of the pedestals, where the decorative mouldings had been destroyed before being covered with modern tongue-and-groove boards. Here too, no additions were made. However, the calming retouching of the blue areas emphasises the original structure and compensates for the loss (Fig. 44, 45). Fig.38: Predella, bottom moulding after consolidation Fig.37: Injection of filler Fig.39: First step of formal reconstruction with coarse filling mass
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