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Conserving Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Andrew: A Technical Study

Conserving Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Andrew: A Technical Study was originally an interactive app. The app was not updated to function on current operating systems and the contents were adapted to this format by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2023. Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Andrew is a masterpiece of baroque painting and the only altarpiece by the artist in America. Painted in Naples in 1606–7, the work was taken to Spain in 1610, where it likely remained for hundreds of years. The painting was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art soon after its rediscovery in the 1970s. One of only eight works by Caravaggio in the United States, The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew had not been cleaned since 1974 and was ripe for examination. Beginning in 2014, the CMA senior conservator of paintings Dean Yoder spent nearly three years studying Caravaggio’s working technique, cleaning and conserving the CMA painting, and analyzing technical images. The discoveries made during this process were initially shared in Conserving Caravaggio’s “Crucifixion of Saint Andrew”: A Technical Study, an interactive app detailing the methods of analysis that Yoder used––including X-rays, pigment anal

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