The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

The degree to which the durability of a painting was thought to rely on the preparation is evident in a contract of 1585: “First ...

think it a good idea to add a little table oil to the yeso mate, especially in winter.... I’ve also seen good gilders add linsee ...

hand. The date of the contract is 1456—fairly early for such concern about authorship (Sobré 1989:38, n. 31). Few infrared refle ...

fitted at right angles some distance into the wall; holes a meter deep are not uncommon. Rubble and plaster (or adobe) were used ...

backings for canvas paintings. This was a prudent measure used to “dimin- ish the effect of our extreme climate”^10 on the paint ...

11 The paintings by El Greco for the high altar (1576) in the convent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, as well as a large Annunciati ...

Serrano y Sanz, M. 1914 Documentos relativos a la pintura en Aragón durante los siglos XIV y XV. Revista de archivos, biblioteca ...

149 T  ,as well as through documentation and research in conservation studios, the methods used by old master p ...

The artists would often use wood native to their region. Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), for example, painted on poplar when he was ...

should be of only a single plank free from sapwood. The text of Beurs implicitly suggests that the use of other wood species wou ...

Sometimes oak shows the signs of insect attack in a light area in the middle of a plank. This light part of the wood is called a ...

formed after the gluing of the separate planks (Fig. 5a). Plane marks cross- ing the joins were very common in sixteenth- and se ...

could be attributed to the same panel maker (Christie and Wadum 1992; Wadum 1988). Tools for carpentry dating from the seventeen ...

and dowel holes can easily be traced, revealing the differences in method between one panel maker and another (Wadum 1987). In s ...

relation to the first piece.^12 The panel maker was obviously aware that the joining of boards with the grain running perpendicu ...

The method of applying linen to the panels was also used by panel makers of the northern countries, as in a large (28 m^2 ) pain ...

were not glued but instead were fitted into a groove in the frames. The center panel has a rabbet around the edge on the back th ...

joins, except for that of the large vertical plank, which has a chamfered 3–5 cm overlap.^22 Such additions were often done by p ...

Smaller panels used for easel painting were often made in standard sizes. By the fifteenth century, altars had already been stan ...

Among the hundreds of items found in the inventory made after the death of the widow of panel and frame maker Hans van Haecht (1 ...