Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was born in Monza, Italy, and as a young girl, she was heavily involved in the art world. She worked under Gio Ponti as a young girl and eventually became an architecture student who was introduced to restoration by her mentor Piero Portaluppi. Barcilon aided in the restoration of other popular works by Lambert Lombard, and then in the 1970s, Superintendent for Artistic and Historical Heritage in Milan hired her to work on the famous Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (Barcilon).
Source: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla, et al. Leonardo: The Last Supper. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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