Turin, Galleria Sabauda, Taddeo di Bartolo, Two Saints, Painting on panel

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Restoration report, graphic and photographic documentation relating to the intervention carried out on the painting depicting Two saints by Thaddeus of Bartholomew.

 

 

Facilitated description 
 

The work depicting St. Anthony the Abbot and St. Francis is a painting on panel from the early 1400s preserved at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.
At the time of the restoration it was considered the work of the painter Taddeo di Bartolo, today it is attributed to the painter Mariotto di Nardo.
The restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1999-2000.
The support of the painted board was fragile because it was very damaged by xylophagous insects (insects that feed on wood and damage the work). 
The problems of the table had created upheavals of the pictorial film and gilding. 
The restoration was very complex in the phases of consolidation (the operation that makes the surfaces more stable) of the support and the colour. 
The restorer has carried out the plastering of the gaps (a white layer of plaster and glue that extends inside a gap and forms a smooth and uniform base on which to paint the additions).
The restorer has made pictorial additions (reconstruction of the material or color of missing parts) with watercolor colors and veils (transparent layer of color).