21mc052-TA-2008_Turin, Savoy Gallery, Adoration of the Magi, inv. 181, cat. 156a

Facilitated description: 

 

The Adoration of the Magi is a painting on a wooden table made in the late 1400s.  
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 painted the area where you join the wooden boards. 
They cleaned the frame of the dust. 
They stopped the parts of gilding and wood that were coming off. 
They filled the wooden gaps of the frame with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
They filled the missing gilding parts of the frame.
In the end they painted the frame to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 

 

 

 

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 on the table provided for the removal of dust deposits on the back and front of the painting by brush and vacuum cleaner. Subsequently, localized painting was carried out at the reintegration present on the commissioning line between the two axes of the support.
On the frame the gilding was cleaned thanks to the use of a mixture of acetone-ligroin, the flakes were consolidated and the detachments of the decorative elements of the carving were re-adhesive. Subsequently we proceeded to plaster the gaps with the use of plaster and glue and the reintegration with the application of gold leaf and gold in shell. Finally, a final painting was sprayed.

 

Bibliography

S. De Bosio, Sheet 2.1 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, p. 98.