25mc25-TE-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, L. Cambiaso, Diana and Callisto, inv. 365

Facilitated description:

 

Diana and Callisto is a painting on canvas and represents Callisto among the maiden followers of the goddess Diana while bathing. 
The painter Luca Cambiaso painted the painting in 1570.
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 made small interventions because the painting had already been restored.
The restorers cleaned behind the painting to remove dust.
Then they cleaned in front of the painting with chemicals. 
They painted the lack of color of the sky. 
They put a varnish to protect the painting from the sun's rays and dust. 
The restorers cleaned the frame of the dust. 
They stopped the parts of wood and gilding that were coming off. 
They filled the holes in the wood with stucco (plaster and glue). 
In the end they put gold sheets on the plastering and on the parts without gilding.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

The table was the subject of conservation and restoration work on the occasion of the installation of the Galleria Sabauda at the new headquarters in the Manica Nuova of Palazzo Reale in Turin (2014). The restoration was accompanied by a multispectral diagnostic campaign and photographic documentation, which were useful in deepening some of the technical characteristics of the work.

 

Restoration

On the painting Diana and Callisto Only one revision was needed, since it had been the subject of a recent restoration. The intervention began with the removal of dust deposits from the frame and the back with microaspirator and with the chemical cleaning of the pictorial film. The extensive abrasions of the area of the sky were reintegrated punctually and a protective vein was spread. 
On the frame, after dusting, the consolidations of the raised flakes of prpearation and gilding with injections of acrylic resin were carried out. The surface was then cleaned of purple and the gaps grouted. Finally, the additions of red bolus gilding and gold leaf were carried out in the largest gaps and with watercolour colours in the smaller ones.