25mc53-54-AL-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, 2 Balaustre, inv. 88, 89

Facilitated description:

 

The 2 balustrades are wooden works made in 1500. 
The balustrades are righiere and serve to separate the spaces of an environment. 
The balustrades are kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the balustrades in 2014. 
The restorers cleaned the balustrades of dust. 
They checked the operation of the joints of the different pieces of wood. 
They filled the wood holes caused by insects eating the wood with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
They painted stucco. 
In the end they painted the balustrades to protect them from the sun's rays and dust. 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The restoration of the 2 balustrades, inv. 88 and 89 of the Gualino collection began with the chemical cleaning of the surface and the removal of wax residues. The tenon and mortise joints have been relocated appropriately, without gluing or binding them, but leaving them mobile. Subsequently, the holes caused by the attacks of xylophagous insects were grouted with consolidant and other small groutings with nut-colored pigmented wax stucco were performed. Finally, a protective layer of microcrystalline wax was laid.