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...began serious negotiations with the Prince, shortly after the deal with Simon had fallen through, Director John Walker sent Mario Modestini, a New York restorer, to examine the painting. "He went over it, literally, with a microscope for 2½ hours," reported the gallery's secretary-treasurer, Ernest Feidler, last week. What Modestini saw resolved the National Gallery's last doubts...
...humidity and temperature to solve; in the Prince's vaults, where Ginevra had been kept, the temperature is 44°, humidity 55%. If the wood-panel oil heated or dried too quickly, the paint surface might crack. To protect against this, the suitcase was turned into what Feidler calls "a traveling thermos bottle"; the painting was wrapped in sheets of polyethylene and sealed airtight to keep it fresh, much like a sandwich in Saran wrap. Tests had shown that the suitcase temperature would rise at most 1¼° per hour...
Repellent & Alluring. At 1 p.m. Zurich time, Modestini, Feidler and their 490-year-old companion boarded Swissair Flight 100. Ginevra occupied a $417 window seat. Beneath the suitcase tab was a dial, similar to those used on meat thermometers, indicating the temperature deep within the Styrofoam. "We checked her temperature every hour," says Feidler, who found it rising slowly but no faster than anticipated. "I would be less than truthful if I didn't say that I had apprehensions." A five-hour delay in landing was caused by an East Coast snowstorm. At New York, customs officials, alerted...
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