The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings
often professors from fine arts academies—simultaneously connoisseurs and conservators. These gallery inspectors usually execute ...
Craftsmanship is not enough.... Only a well trained conservator is in the position to judge all conditions of the paint layer an ...
put on sale. Collectors at that time did not want the complete altar work (including its shrine architecture, ornamental carving ...
practice that became relatively common in all museums and continued into the twentieth century. Hans Thoma, director of the Kuns ...
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt cites other examples of paintings as large as 203 3 106 cm that were split without being first ...
subsequent damage resulting from this treatment: “Until dividing, this type of panel was healthy. Humidity and heat could not re ...
But splitting was still recommended when a damaged support required a partial transfer. In such instances, it was noted that the ...
the nineteenth century. In 1867 Andreas Eigner treated Holbein’s Solothurn Madonnawith mercury chloride (Brachert 1972:6). In Au ...
In 1910 the conservation chemist Friedrich Rathgen cited an old recipe, a concoction of 1.5 l vinegar, 12.5 g garlic, 25 g onion ...
Pest fumigation of wood has also gone through fundamental changes. Having been practiced since antiquity, fumigation may be one ...
tures of wax with resins, epoxy resins, and polyester resins) (Straub 1963). An immersion method is also described. Melting a wa ...
on a slightly humid support such as a stone or brick floor, sometimes with a load on the warped panel to straighten it (Wolters ...
The shellac method for flattening wooden panel paintings may be beneficial in that, unlike other systems, it does not require pr ...
straight (Wolters 1952:9). Wider slots, made with saws, were normally filled with small strips or wedges of wood to keep the pan ...
harmful rigid lattices and frameworks were still made during the nine- teenth century by joiners and restorers. Evidently, Hacqu ...
1921:294). Other restorers who voted against cradling pointed out the dis- advantages—but their criticisms were directed toward ...
the chief restorer, Professor Haysinek, and Mr. Sochor, the head of the technical department, who had practiced that special met ...
(Hertel 1853:24). In 1904 von Frimmel described wood-to-wood transfer as an impractical method no longer in use (von Frimmel 190 ...
Chipboards have a more extensive history, as they have long been produced for the furniture industry (Schiessl 1983:72–77). They ...
Witz, was considered necessary to treat drastic problems caused by climate changes in the new wing of the Germanisches Nationalm ...
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