The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

be mounted with iron nails, an easy method of framing, as the frame itself could be assembled before the panel was fitted into i ...

panels he wanted to have branded, he would take them to the dean him- self for approval (Van Damme 1990). This procedure was req ...

Branding of panels generally took place before the ground was applied. This can be illustrated in two particular incidents, wher ...

maker. Joiners were not members of the guild of Saint Luke at this time and, therefore, were not monitored until 1617 by the keu ...

1864–76; Rooses 1878).^34 The availability of panels fully sized and grounded would save time and labor for an artist’s atelier, ...

In the north this practice changed during the sixteenth century. The underdrawing would be made directly onto the thin white gro ...

order to close the pores of the wood.^41 An English manuscript from 1622 by Peacham describes a similar method (Talley 1981:61–7 ...

The author is grateful for help and suggestions from Nicola Costaras and Feroza Verberne. A special thanks is also extended to A ...

12 Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Helena Fourment,ca. 1635. Oil on panel, 98 3 76 cm. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis (inv. 25 ...

30 The panels in question, all of which are single planks, are (1) Jan Brueghel the Elder and stu- dio of Peter Paul Rubens, Nym ...

1901:27) says the mèsticashould first be mixed to an even color out of drying pigments such as lead white, naples yellow, or ter ...

Bruijn, J. 1979 Een onderzoek naar 17de-eeuwse schilderijformaten, voornamelijk in Noord- Nederland. Oud Holland93:96–115. Cardo ...

Gifford, E. M. 1983 A technical investigation of some Dutch seventeenth-century tonal landscapes. In Preprints of the 11th Annua ...

Marijnissen, R., and M. Sawko Michalski 1960 De twee gotische retabels van Geel: Een onderzoek van materiële feiten. Bulletin va ...

Sosson, J. P. 1977 Les traveaux publics de la ville de Bruges, XIVe et XVe siècles: Les matériaux, les hommes. Brussels: n.p. Ta ...

1993 Recent discoveries on Antwerp panel makers’ marks. Technologia Artis3:96–100. 1997 The Antwerp brand on panel paintings. In ...

178 W     of properties that enable it to be used—even to be the material of choice— for thousan ...

Hewing is done with axes. Like cleaving, it appears to have been practiced, in a crude way, from the very earliest period of hum ...

finishing, as can be seen in illustrations of seventeenth- and eighteenth- century workshops (Fig. 7a, b). Sawing, although depe ...

(Roubo 1769). Admittedly the French inch was then 27 mm—about one- sixteenth greater than today’s inch—but even so, taking into ...