Alan Bush, conservator, undertaking the final retouching of Guido Reni's ‘The Separation of Night and Day’. Alan Bush and Jonathan Berry worked on the painting for a year.
Alan working on the face of the figure of Dawn. Retouching is the process of filling in any areas of loss sympathetically in order to link the areas of original paint together.
Retouching under the lips of the Night figure. You can see on the tip of the paintbrush the very pale paints which were used to match the fresco tones.
