21mc047-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, D. Zampieri said Domenichino, Allegory of architecture, astronomy and agriculture, inv. 477 cat. 499

Facilitated description: 

 

Allegory of architecture, astronomy and agriculture is a painting on canvas. 
Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino, painted the painting around 1624-1625. 
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre did a maintenance on the painting in 2008 for an exhibition. 
After the intervention, the painting was exhibited at an exhibition in Brussels. 
The restorers cleaned the painting of dust. 
They filled small color gaps in the blue robe of the angel in the center. 
They painted the painting to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 
The restorers cleaned the frame of the dust. 
They filled the wooden gaps with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
They filled the lacks of gilding with gold in sheets. 
 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Maintenance

The intervention on the painting of the Galleria Sabauda in Turin is part of the maintenance carried out in view of the exhibition De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie in Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts, 20 February - 24 May 2009).
The maintenance provided for the removal of dust deposits by brush and vacuum cleaner, the retouching of the blue robe and painting.
On the frame we proceeded to dusting, cleaning with neutral organic solvents, plastering and additions of gilding with gold leaf.

 

Bibliography

C. Goria, Tab 6.3 in De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie, C. E. Spantigati, P. Astrua, A. M. Bava, S. Damiano, Torino, Allemandi, 2009, pp. 160-161.