21mc066-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. Ghisolfi, Dido founds Carthage, inv. 445, cat. 543

Facilitated description: 

 

Dido Fonda Carthage is a painting on canvas. 
Giovanni Ghisolfi and Filippo Lauri painted the painting in the mid-1600s.
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre did a maintenance on the painting in 2008 for an exhibition. 
After the intervention, the painting was exhibited at an exhibition in Brussels. 
The restorers cleaned the painting and the frame from dust. 
They stopped the gilding parts of the frame that were coming off. 
They filled the wooden gaps with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
In the end they filled the lacks of gilding with watercolor colors. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Maintenance

The intervention on the painting of the Galleria Sabauda in Turin is part of the maintenance carried out in view of the exhibition De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie in Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts, 20 February - 24 May 2009).
The aim of the intervention was to restore the conditions of functionality and legibility of the painting in the optics of minimal invasiveness and in compliance with the historical testimonies present on the work. A dusting was then carried out on the painting, while on the frame a cleaning, stopping and consolidation of the scales raised with fish glue, plastering and watercolor integration were carried out.

 

Bibliography

S. Villano, Tab 8.2 in De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie, C. E. Spantigati, P. Astrua, A. M. Bava, S. Damiano, Turin, Allemandi, 2009, p. 191.