The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

lengthened, and the pilasters above the spring of the arches were refixed (those on either side of the central panel to that pan ...

The author is grateful to Kathryn Hebb for her help with this article, as well as to Ray Marchant for his help and advice. 1 For ...

Brass fixing strips of various sizes,J. Shiner and Sons, 8 Windmill Street, London W1P 1HF, England. Plastazote and Evazote,BXL ...

Mecklenburg, Marion, and Charles Tumosa 1991 Mechanical behaviour of paintings subjected to changes in temperature and relative ...

448 A  of paintings treated at the Hamilton Kerr Institute (HKI) in Cambridge, England, have been on wooden ...

of warp-prone areas is also a factor. For example, planks cut tangentially are more prone to warp movement. If a warp-prone area ...

Some unusual woods may be found. Raphael’s Transfiguration,^9 painted on cherry wood (Prunus arium L.), is a very large panel (M ...

Panel Earliest Dowelled Planks Splits la tti ce Panel Earliest Dowelled Planks Splits lat ti ce planks joined parallel to the lo ...

thickness, shows considerable joint damage. Despite these observations, Figure 6a–c shows a painting by Rubens in King’s College ...

considered in relation to potential stresses, whether a panel is restrained statically or allowed to move more freely. Common se ...

the desired edge rather than to “cartwheel” the panel from one edge to another. When leaning a large panel away from a vertical ...

AFlemish oak panel of original thickness had two nonoriginal metal battens screwed to the back (Fig. 8a–c). Not surprisingly, th ...

456 Brewer Figure 8a–e Ambrosius Francken I, The Judgment of Zaleucus,late sixteenth century. Oil on oakpanel, 1795 32165 3 20 m ...

P A   S C  L P P 457 Figure 9a–d Anton Raphael Mengs, Noli Me Tangere,1 ...

458 Brewer have been about 140 kg.^21 Painted in portrait format, the substantial remaining weight and reduced thickness have ha ...

One of two original rectangular beech wood (Fagus sylvaticaL.) inserts, visible on the front, had been exposed in an empty morti ...

wood was replaced with inserts of linden wood to within 2–3 mm of the ground. No obvious adverse reactions to consolidation or w ...

bending stresses would be more likely, imposed by considerable leverages. Any warp from a flat plane would promote buckling. Suc ...

to flatten and smooth the back surface, a procedure usually fol- lowed by the attachment of battens or laminates to restrain th ...

one side, a differentoverall stress distribution develops that depends on envi- ronmental interactions. With larger panels, the ...