This content was filmed in 2019.

Go behind the scenes in Conservation with Restorer Jill Dunkerton and Conservator Britta New as they remove the frame from Sandro Botticelli and Filippino Lippi's 'Adoration of the Kings'.
This video is part 1 of 2 of restoring this painting.

Part 2/3:    • Retouching a Renaissance masterpiece ...  
Part 3/3:    • A scientific investigation of Bottice...  

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🎨 'Adoration of the Kings'
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🎨 Sandro Botticelli
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🎨. Filippino Lippi
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