Filmmaker Kirsten Hills captures research from above

Filmmaker Kirsten Hills captures research from above

Lights, camera... conserve

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Restoring art to the collective consciousness by capturing the process on film. British filmmaker and former BBC journalist Kirsten Hills documents the research process at Ente Cassa di Risparmio. A documentary short on the Palazzo Vecchio restoration will be one of the lasting effects of this unique project. "The painting was commissioned by Niccolò de’ Medici of the minor branch of the Medici; his great-granddaughter and last blood-heir Marchesa Zena Peruzzi de’ Medici inherited it from him. It was painted by an unknown painter two years after Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici’s death. The portrait shows Anna Maria Luisa wearing her widow’s veil, a dress with lace ornaments in the German fashion, perhaps acquired from Dusseldorf, an elaborate jeweled brooch (Anna Maria Luisa was a passionate collector of jewellery) and her crown as the Electress Palatine."

Quote by Jane Fortune: 'The Electress Palatine meets Indiana Jane', in The Florentine, February 2017