07-CR-2008_Padua, Civic Museums - Museum of Medieval and Modern Art, G. Romanino, Pala di Santa Giustina, inv. 669

Facilitated description: 

 

The altarpiece of Santa Giustina is a painting on a wooden table.
The painting represents at the top center the Madonna on a throne with baby Jesus and at the bottom some saints including Justina on the left.
Girolamo da Romano said Romanino made the painting in 1513-1514.
The painting is kept at the Museum of Medieval and Modern Art in Padua.
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2008.
Scientists at the Venaria Center did scientific analysis to study how the painting is made.
The restorers glued the raised painting parts.
They cleaned the painting.
They elimianto the paintings of the old restoration because they were ruined.
They filled the color gaps with a layer of putty (plaster and glue).
They colored the putty with watercolors.
In the end they cleaned the frame of the dust.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Restoration

The restoration work for the Santa Giustina altarpiece was supported by a thorough campaign of preliminary investigations (multispectral and laboratory) for cognitive purposes. 
The restoration began with some preliminary consolidations to ensure the particularly fragile pictorial film with adhesive. This was followed by the consolidation and re-adhesion of the restoration paints and the removal of the overhauls and retouching by slight humidification of the preparatory and pictorial layers, followed by mechanical action and application of heat (thermocautery) for the replastification of the adhesive. The plastering and chromatic reintegration with watercolor colors were then carried out. Finally, the frame was cleaned, taking care not to remove the waxy protective film.