The restoration of the Triptych with Crucifixion and Saints is complete. The only thing left to do is to reassemble it in Room VI of the Pinacoteca.

The movement of the painting will be documented by the photographic laboratory of the Vatican Museums. Meanwhile, the restorers are completing the reintegration and documentation of the artist's technique. The need to make the entire logistic team available and to close Room VI of the Pinacoteca to visitors has delayed the repositioning of the panels, which will take place in the next few days.

It was fascinating to see how the polyptych responds to the typical characteristics of 15th-century panels, according to the dictates mentioned by Cennino Cennini in his Book of Art. The painting, in its elements and methodology, reproduces all the medieval practices for creating a work in tempera with a gilded ground on a panel: the blotting between the panels, the preparation with chalk and glue, the bolus for the gilding, etc.

The painting consists of a complex structure of considerable size, one of the biggest and most articulated in the Vatican Pinacoteca. Probably disassembled in the 19th century to transport it from the Marche region, it was reassembled in the Vatican by adding new structural and decorative parts. In November 2023, a complex movement was carried out to transport the polyptych from the Pinacoteca to the Restoration Laboratories.

After careful observation under grazing light, the restorers performed minor bandaging where the paint film appeared lifted or unadhered before moving the painting. The veiling with Japanese paper and adhesive in water was done two days earlier to allow perfect drying before moving the work. Exactly as was the case two centuries ago, it was impossible to move the work without disassembling it, an operation that began before removing the polyptych from the wall by removing the highest brush strokes. The individual disassembled parts were placed in plastic bags to perform the anoxic treatment, including of course the frame. The anoxic nitrogen treatment is specifically for Cultural Heritage applications.