7mc12-TE-2011_Venaria, Royal Palace, Portrait of Ferderico Barbarossa, inv. 5483 (owner of Moncalieri Castle)

Facilitated description: 

 

The portrait of Federico Barbarossa is a painting on canvas made during the 1600s. 
The painting is kept at the Reggia di Venaria. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2011.
The restorers stopped the parts of color that were peeling off. 
They cleaned the painting of dust. 
They reinforced the damaged canvas parts. 
They removed the folds from the canvas. 
Eventually they put strips of canvas along the edges to fix the painting to the frame (wooden structure that stands behind the painting and serves to support the painting). 
 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

Restoration

The painting, owned by the Castle of Moncalieri was granted on loan to the Reggia di Venaria to be exhibited in the permanent visit path. The work is part of a group of 15 canvases depicting foreign rulers.
The operations provided for the safety of the works and the improvement of aesthetic legibility. The localized stoppage of the raised pictorial film flakes, the removal of temporary tissue, the aspiration of incoherent deposits of atmospheric particulate from the recto and verso and the removal of coherent particulate deposits from the protective layer were then performed. The work was then released from the frame to facilitate cleaning. Finally, consolidations of the textile support were carried out, flatness was recovered and definitive perimeter strips were applied.