25mc20-TA-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. A. Bazzi (Sodoma), Sacra famiglia, inv. 234

Facilitated description:

 

The Holy Family is a painting on a wooden table. 
The painting depicts Mary holding the baby Jesus in her arms. Behind Mary is represented St. Joseph. 
The painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi called Sodoma made the painting in 1513. 
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 cleaned the painting of dust. 
They glued the parts of color that were peeling off. 
They filled the missing parts with a layer of stucco (plaster and glue) and then painted the stucco. 
They painted the painting to protect it from the sun's rays and dust.
Then they cleaned the frame and glued the parts of wood and gilding that were coming off.
In the end they gilded the parts without gilding with gold leaf and powder.

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The intervention included the following operations on the table and on the frame: consolidations, cleaning, grouting, retouching and painting. In addition, a structural revision and integration with leaf and shell gold was carried out on the frame.