The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

Tintori, Leonetto, and Andrea Rothe 1978 Observations on the straightening and cradling of warped panel paintings. In Conservati ...

Current Approaches to the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings PART FOUR ...

306 M    by the great flood of 1966 in Florence than by both World Wars combined. Many paintings and other art ...

departments of the Vecchie Poste at the Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti before theflood, proved to be the most stable wood, with the le ...

308 Rothe and Marussich Figure 2 Examples of crossbars showing progressive reduction in size. (a) Crossbar used in 1975 on the A ...

mately 55°. The groove should straddle the crack all the way down to the gesso preparation; short, individually fitted wedges ar ...

wherever necessary along the crack. By strategic placement of the screws and the small blocks under the braces, either side of t ...

screws that are inserted directly into the original wood of the panel. Unfortunately, if the crossbars need to be removed and re ...

have rarely been adopted in Florence. New problems for future interven- tions are created when materials such as wax cannot be r ...

F S S T 313 Figure 11 Gherardo Starnina, Madonna and Child with Musical Angels. Detail. T ...

Starnina panel, the treatment of which was carried out in 1982, the condi- tion is stable, and no new signs of cupping or flakin ...

Buck, R. D. 1978 The use of moisture barriers on panel paintings. In The Behavior of Wood and the Treatment ofPanel Paintings,26 ...

T   work by the Division of Restoration for Canvas and Panel Paintings at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Lab ...

applying a series of interventions, whether they be in the form of treat- ments or of preventive conservation efforts. The prima ...

Diagnostic studies To arrive at a precise understanding of the painting’s support, it is impor- tant to analyze the consistency ...

characteristic isolation layer had fallen into disuse, as the construction technique for the preparatory layers no longer requir ...

on the surface, covering 7 cm of the original paint. The frame was held in place with screws, inserted from behind, that passed ...

Previous restorations The restoration work done at the beginning of this century was carried out with an invasive technique and ...

Reinforcement of the addition by the insertion of several rectangular wooden pieces to hold the two parts of the join together. ...

reconstruction of the structure proceeded with the reintegration of the missing parts of the support, in particular in the lap j ...