On the occasion of the great monographic that will inaugurate on December 20, The King's Painter. Luigi Norfini in Risorgimento Italy, promoted by the National Museums of Lucca and the Palazzo Galeotti Museum in Pescia to celebrate the bicentenary of the artist’s birth, the Centro Conservazione Restauro ‘La Venaria Reale’ contributed to the project with the restoration of two important works from the Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento in Turin.
The exhibition, divided between the Casermetta of Villa Guinigi, Palazzo Mansi and the Palazzo Galeotti Museum, brings together for the first time a large nucleus of works by Luigi Norfini, presented in the context of Risorgimento painting alongside masters such as Fattori, Lega and Signorini.
The intervention
The Center has intervened on two paintings by Norfini of the Museo del Risorgimento in Turin, consolidating an already active collaboration for the conservation of the Turin Risorgimento collections: the Portrait of Vittorio Emanuele II, of 1878, and Vittorio Emanuele II and the Zuavi. Victory of Palestro, of 1863.
The latter, a large-format canvas (almost 3 × 5 metres with a frame), required a conservative intervention carried out in a construction site open to the public at the Turin museum. The intervention involved several operational phases:
- localized re-adhesion of the uplifts of the pictorial film;
- surface cleaning of the protective film;
- removal of grouting that is no longer suitable;
- chromatic integration of gaps;
- consolidation and aesthetic adjustment of the frame.
The contribution of the Centre’s restorers also includes assistance during the dismantling and handling phases of the work with a view to its departure for Lucca.
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