21mc058-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, H. Terbrugghen, San Giovanni Evangelista, inv. 100, cat. 462

Facilitated description: 

 

St. John the Evangelist is a painting on canvas.  
Hendrick Terbrugghen 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 cleaned the painting and the frame from dust. 
They checked the state of preservation of paintings from previous restorations. 
They filled the wooden gaps of the frame with stucco (plaster and glue layer).
They filled the lacks of gilding of the gold frame in sheets. 
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 intervention on the painting began with the removal of dust deposits on the back and front with a brush and vacuum cleaner. Subsequently, the pictorial reintegrations with paint colors and localized painting by spray gloss paint were revised.        
The frame was cleaned with acetone to remove large deposits of dirt and blackening due to the oxidation of purples. In addition, gaps in the decorative elements were integrated with plastering (plaster and glue) and gouache gilding with gold leaf and gold in shell was applied. Finally, a painting was sprayed.

 

Bibliography

C. Goria, Sheet 4.3 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. 136-137.