Galleria Sabauda, Taddeo di Bartolo, Madonna and Child between San Jacopo Maggiore and San Domenico, Painting on panel

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Restoration report (07/2007-10/2008), graphic and photographic documentation relating to the intervention carried out on the painting depicting Madonna and Child between San Giacomo Maggiore and San Domenico by Thaddeus of Bartholomew. The photographs illustrate the phases before and during the restoration of the work.

Works supervision: Paola Astrua.

 

 

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The work ‘Madonna with Child between San Jacopo and San Domenico’ by Taddeo di Bartolo, now known as ‘Madonna with Child Enthroned between San Jacopo and San Domenico’, is a painting on panel kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 2007-2008 under the direction of Paola Astrua.
The restorer removed the dust from the surface and applied a treatment against xylophagous insects (insects that feed on the wood and damage the work).
He fixed the color scales that were raised and cleaned the protective paint.
The painting presented itself with extensive gaps (missing parts).
The previous restoration (1977) had kept the gaps (missing parts) visible with a neutral color.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla intervened to cover with color some gaps (missing parts) too evident, such as the one on the mantle of the Madonna.
The restorer has made a plastering of the gaps (a white layer of plaster and glue that extends inside a gap and that forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions) to make them similar to the original painting.
He carried out the pictorial reintegration (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) with watercolor colors and veils (transparent layer of color).