The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

grain and texture so essential in creating the extraordinarily intricate intar- sia images. One colored wood stands out as uniqu ...

architecture, furniture, and other decorative arts. All of these were prod- ucts of a unique moment in European history, rich in ...

The intarsia panels, and indeed the entire room, had sustained damage from the studiolo’s four-hundred-year tenure at the Gubbio ...

Some nail stubs were too small (shorter than 0.5 cm) to be threaded and therefore needed a different extension system. A hollow ...

thewood cylinders was placed in the same direction to match each matrix section. The cylinders were glued to the matrix section ...

A R S   D P  G 489 Figure 14a, b Reverse of panel 9–10 top. The deteriorated board has b ...

to the intarsia panel so that none of the adjacent boards, which had frag- mentary deterioration at the sides, required removal ...

The original fifteenth-century paint was consolidated with fish glue and the surface lightly cleaned with saliva. Most of the ni ...

492 Wilmering Figure 18 Main ceiling of the studiolo after conserva- tion treatment. Figure 19 The Gubbio studiolo after conserv ...

The author dedicates this article to Charles D. Wright and John Kitchin, retired chief conservation officers of Furniture and Wo ...

6 Paul Laspeyres, a German architectural scholar who visited the ducal palace in 1873, mentions that Prince Lancellotti purchase ...

22 Arkon P90 is a synthetic resin that dissolves in Shellsol 71. It is a very stable resin and has little tendency to cross-link ...

Nachod, H. 1943 The inscription in Federigo da Montefeltro’s studiolo in the Metropolitan Museum. Medievalia et Humanistica2:98– ...

Probably there is no construction that suffers more seriously as a result of the movement ofwood than the paint on a painted pan ...

measured with strain gauges and recorded. The investigation showed that the movements of a new oak panel and a panel from the se ...

holds that a narrow range of temperature and RH change is advisable for the preservation of a panel painting. Thomson’s studies ...

Miura examined sorbents for their static and dynamic charac- teristics, to estimate their ability to buffer RH changes in a show ...

1934, MacIntyre published test results to show that RH in a poorly sealed display case is still more stable than the RH in the s ...

develop within the case after a certain time.^16 Thus the sealed case— when tightly packed with conditioned wood and similar hyg ...

Probably the most-cited contribution on controlling microclimates was written by Thomson in 1977. He derived a formula with expe ...