25mc47-AL-2014_Turin, Savoy Gallery, sacristy wardrobe, inv. 27

Facilitated description:

 

The sacristy closet is a wooden cabinet. 
The furniture was made during the 1400s.
The furniture is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the furniture in 2014. 
The restorers cleaned the closet and eliminated the paint. 
They inserted small pieces of wood into the cracks. 
Then they covered the slits with stucco (plaster and glue) and colored the stucco with watercolors. 
The restorers filled the wood gaps in the outside with similar wood. 
In the end they painted the furniture to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The restoration of the wardrobe of the Gualino collection began with a chemical cleaning to remove the paint layer. The cracks in the interior of the painted doors were supplemented with balsa filzette and then plastered and retouched with watercolour. The material gaps on the front of the doors were compensated in walnut wood, while the molding deficiencies were supplemented with carved and glued walnut strips. Finally, the missing Carthusian inlay tiles were supplemented with earth-pigmented wax putty. A final protective varnish was applied to the entire surface.