The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

workers is such that the surface may appear to the modern eye to have been planed (Fig. 11). Once reasonably true and flat surfa ...

bing adjoining parts together with sand as an abrasive. Roman planes—the earliest known examples of this valuable woodworking to ...

glue alone would seem adequate. Various mechanical fixings, such as bat- tens, loose tongues, tongue and groove, or dovetail key ...

or rushes that in their natural growth had picked up silicates, were the norm until the arrival of accurately graded glasspaper. ...

History of the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings PART THREE ...

188 M  panel conservation techniques are directly related to a long history of panel construction that dates to anti ...

More conservative methods have replaced the radical ones of the past. Up to the late 1950s, it was common practice in Italy to t ...

insertions are present on a panel, Domenico Puligo’s Virgin and Child with Saints,from the cathedral in Laterina, with the inscr ...

In other cases, such as the dated restoration from 1634, futile attempts were made to reinforce the splits by gluing strips of w ...

In nineteenth-century Italy, as in the rest of Europe, more in- depth interventions treating warpage problems became common prac ...

exerted on the original panel and have been replaced with others of different designs and varying degrees of effectiveness. In t ...

restoration departments in Florence—have proved to be very effective. The present-day interventions at the Fortezza da Basso in ...

run across the width of each of the seven panels, perpendicular to the grain of the wood (Fig. 18). The braces were attached on ...

1959:35–47). Although the room in which the painting is exhibited was thefirst in Italy to have a climate-controlled environment ...

saw, the holes were filled with poplar plugs inserted parallel to the wood grain. The cross braces were constructed in the same ...

glues, PVAemulsion glues, and epoxy do not adhere well when there are even minimal traces of wax. One of the main problems facin ...

The author’s particular gratitude goes to Miguel Angel Corzo, Marta de la Torre, and Kathleen Dardes for making this conference ...

T   a sur vey of the history of structural panel painting treatments in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Sin ...

Heidelberg. In 1824 Schlesinger was the first paintings restorer of the Royal Museums in Berlin (Schiessl 1990:97–117). Köster’s ...

isfilled with critical commentaries citing differences among national methodologies and attitudes in restoration, such as the ca ...