Cavalier D'Arpino - Trinità dei Monti - Rome

The western gallery in the cloister of the convent of Trinità dei Monti in Rome contains a fresco and stuccoes painted by Cavalier D’Arpino in 1585 and a vault that was painted in later times. The cloister underwent a number of restoration interventions over the centuries, which included the Kings of France being painted over the ovals and numerous iron nails being used for reinforcement purposes. The fresco by Cavalier D’Arpino had been seriously damaged following the collapse of large portions of plaster and repeated use of oil-based varnish treatments, which made the painted surface completely illegible when the latter corroded over the years. We restored the fresco by Cavalier D'Arpino and the paintings on the vault in the north-western corner of the cloister.
(Photo by P. Soriani)