21mc053-TA-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, A. Tempesta, Death of Adonis, inv. 601, cat. 475

Facilitated description: 

 

Death of Adonis is a painting on stone.  
Antonio Tempesta painted the painting in the early 1600s. 
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 repaired the lack of wood on the right side of the frame.
They filled the missing gilding parts of the frame with gold 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 rehabilitation of the small gap on the right rule of the frame and the reintegration of gilding with gold leaf.

 

Bibliography

M. B. Failla, Sheet 3.6 in De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie, C. E. Spantigati, P. Astrua, A. M. Bava, S. Damiano, Turin, Allemandi, 2009, p. 125.