25mc11-TE-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, O. Riminaldi, Davide con la testa di golia, inv. 98

Facilitated description:

 

David with the Head of Goliath is a painting. 
The painting depicts David holding the head of the giant Goliath.
Orazio Riminaldi painted the painting in the first half of 1600. 
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2014.
The restorers, together with those responsible for the conservation of the work, decided to keep the strips of canvas added to the sides of the painting to enlarge it.
The restorers cleaned the painting and eliminated the yellowed paint and paintings from the old restoration. 
They filled the color gaps of the sides with a layer of putty (plaster and glue).
They painted the putty. 
They put a product to protect the painting from the sun's rays and dust.
After the restorers restored the frame.
They stopped the wooden parts that were coming off. 
They cleaned the frame and filled the small holes with putty.
In the end they gilded the stucco. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

In agreement with the protection body and given the state of conservation of the work, it was decided to maintain the last structural intervention that led to the modification of the size of the painting with the addition of the side bands on the long sides. The current intervention was therefore aimed at recovering the chromatic values of the original pictorial text. The surface was then cleaned with solvents to eliminate oxidized paint and repainting. This operation highlighted the presence of a very irregular perimeter grouting, dating back to the last restoration intervention. It was therefore decided to create new perimeter plastering and to fill with the same method the gaps of the upper and lower edges. Subsequently, the chromatic adjustment of the plastering was performed, the painting, the chromatic revision of the rest of the surface with paint colors and a further final protective painting.
On the frame adhesion defects have been fixed with resin and thermocautery injections and the surface has been cleaned from deposits thanks to the use of brushes and microaspirator and chemical cleaning for the most tenacious residues. The plastering was then carried out, on which a bolus was laid for the application of gold leaf foil. Finally, a chromatic revision was carried out with watercolor colors and a final painting.