24-MT-2007_Turin, Royal Palace, V. Demignot, Alessandro giovinetto receives the scepter (tape), inv. 5067

Facilitated description:

 

Alessandro giovetto receives the scepter is a tapestry, a large canvas work that hangs to decorate the walls.
The tapestry is kept at the Royal Palace of Turin.
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the tapestry in 2007.
The restorers have removed the lining (canvas that you put behind the tapestry to reinforce it). In this way they cleaned behind the tapestry with special vacuum cleaners.
They have removed the repairs made in the past.
They washed the tapestry in a large tub.
They repositioned and sewed the broken threads.
In the end they put a new lining behind the tapestry and an adhesive strip at the top to hang it.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

The restoration of the tapestry of the Royal Palace Alessandro giovinetto receives the scepter (inv. 5067), made by Vittorio Demignot on cardboard by Claudio Francesco beaumont, was made on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition of the Reggia di Venaria The Palace of Venaria and the Savoy. Art and magnificence and history of a European court (Reggia di Venaria, 12 October 2007 - 30 March 2008).

Restoration

The intervention began with the disassembly of the lining and the micro-suction of the front and the back. Subsequently, the previous restoration works were removed (rammendi, patches located in the upper part at the winged putti) and, as historical documentation, it was decided to keep only one of the patches positioned in the wing of the putto on the left. A new suction was then carried out, followed by a cleaning by immersion washing. A conservative recovery intervention was then carried out: repositioning of missing warps and fastening of loose warps to plain stitch on local linen supports of neutral colour. Finally, a new liner was made with linen, stopped along the sides. On the upper edge was placed a velcro band for the exhibition of the work. 

 

Bibliography

S. Ghisotti, Sheet 15.16, in The Palace of Venaria and the Savoy. Art and magnificence and history of a European court (catalogue), edited by E. Castelnuovo, Turin, Allemandi, pp. 262-263.