The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

members of cradles for easier removal, for example.^44 This procedure could prevent greater stress to the painting from unnecess ...

meet the relative complications of treatment and may also take advantage of the panel structure itself. Based on these considera ...

in a step-by-step manner while leaving them intact over and beyond the next split. For larger panels, which may tend to move sub ...

Mengs and the Palmezzano, and they were conserved within the limita- tions of their current structure and condition. Though disj ...

converge or diverge as the other end of the joint is approached. Slight cor- rections may be made by bending softer woods back i ...

the paint surface (Fig. 17d), to protect the painting edges from careless handling and frame rubs (see Fig. 4a for damage from f ...

The choice of positions for the retainers was based partly on a regular distribution across the panel and partly on the location ...

Whether or not they are framed, large heavy panels are probably better supported on a plinth or base rather than hung. In either ...

London, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the HKI. The author thanks Ian McClure for his support and, above all, for allowi ...

ground drip at the edge. It is interesting to note, in relation to the origins of this panel, that Mengs was in a transition per ...

This approach seemed to work well, though the original wood-ground interface was lost. Epoxy fillers, which would not swell the ...

page at the molecular level in panels restrained flat by balsa laminates must remain theoretical “until an occasion arises to re ...

1994c An auxiliary support case history. Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin 2:61–67. Brown, C., A. Reeve, and M. Wyld 1982 Rubens’ ...

Klein, P., and J. Bauch 1990 Analyses of wood from Italian paintings, with special reference to Raphael. In The Princeton Raphae ...

Tsoumis, G. T. 1991 Science and Technology of Wood: Structure, Properties, Utilization. New York: VanNostrand Reinhold. Uzielli, ...

I saw a group of students huddled before a painting. Their noses were almost, but not quite, touching the panel and the soon-to- ...

painter, engineer, and architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1502) directed the expansion of the ducal palace at Gubbio, ...

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palaces. The paintings were removed form the walls of the studiolo in 1673 and taken to Florence (Raggio 1996). It was not until ...

trompe l’oeil image with naturally colored woods. The workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–90), who was a woodworker, architect, ...