The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

continually modifies its warp. The RH considered suitable to ensure the stability and uniformly flat surface of the wooden suppo ...

the panel easily. This enclosure creates a volume of air that slows climatic ex changes with the environment, thus facilitating ...

The restoration intervention that can address such conditions effectively requires special solutions in methodology and techniqu ...

losses, and retouching were done. The back of the support had been planed down, a procedure that removed a small amount of wood. ...

back of the support, and a central crossbar was installed. The framework, made of chestnut, was anchored to the support with nin ...

This panel painting (495 3 285 cm) is executed in oil on panel and was painted around 1547–48 for the Dini Chapel in the Church ...

were noted. Because of these defects, many planks were repaired during the original construction with the application of plugs o ...

ity, the large carved and gilded frame that held the panel not only served an aesthetic purpose but had a structural function as ...

direction of the grain—manifested themselves in two planks that were simultaneously concave at the bottom and convex at the top. ...

author aligned the planks according to a regular curvature that followed the individual deformations of the planks and that took ...

operation was accomplished with the double-block system used in the tracks ofthe original crossbars. The original tracks were wi ...

intervention follow the rule of respect for the original construction while also providing an appropriate functionality to the s ...

State of preservation The planks that make up the support show slight convex warping on the painted surface. This phenomenon is ...

prepared tracks and glued in place with a PVA emulsion.^21 The degraded part of the wood was eliminated by the correction of the ...

screw, which is held by the slot of the stop plate, and is aided by the inter- position of two convex washers and one Teflon was ...

2 The widths of the planks that compose the upper support measure as follows, starting from the left: 21, 46.5, 56, 49, and 13.5 ...

14 The painting’s planks measure, starting from the left of the painted surface: 50.5, 47.5, 45, 50, 47.5, and 36 cm. 15 The flo ...

T   to the structural conservation of panel paintings described in this article, the author believes that it ...

cradle that has blocked and caused splits in the panel in the past but is now housed in a stable environment may require no trea ...

panels were actually fragments of the same picture. Zeri’s reconstruction was generally accepted in the literature and later con ...