We are currently involved in the restoration of an important seventeenth-century canvas probably Genovese School with the iconography of St. Charles Borromeo and San Teodoro in prayer (located in the Certosa di Loreto in Savona). This restoration, with the approval of the competent Superintendent of Genoa, has recently started to work of the Laboratory of Restoration Works of Art Prison Maritano Claudia and Claudia Cravero and immediately revealed interesting clues about its precise attribution, because in the first phase cleaning of the canvas appeared at the bottom and center the following text: "LB fecit." After that you can find an attribution to the painter Lucian Borzone.
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Borzone Luciano (1590-1645), painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his hometown of Genoa. It 'was a leading portraitist. In Genoa, he painted the Presentation in the Temple for the Church of San Domenico, and the Baptism of Christ for the Church of the Holy Spirit. He died in a fall from scaffolding while painting the image of the Nativity for the ceiling of Nunziata del Vasto.
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