08mc01-TA-2015_Venaria, Royal Palace, Portrait of Erasmus, inv. 259 (ownership of the Royal Museums of Turin)

Facilitated description:

 

The portrait of Erasmus is a painting on wood made in 1540-1550.
He represents Erasmus of Rotterdam, a German thinker.
The painting is kept at the Reggia di Venaria.
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the sculpture in 2015.
The restorers placed the painting in an anoxic chamber, an oxygen-free chamber that serves to eliminate wood-eating insects.
They studied all the deformations of the table.
In the end they put the painting in a clima-frame (a special container that isolates the painting from the outside air and does not deform it).

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Conservative intervention

The panel of the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger is owned by the Galleria Sabauda and is on loan to the Reggia di Venaria for the exhibition in the tour itinerary.
The work was placed in an anoxic chamber for a disinfestation. Graphic surveys were then developed to document the degree of deformation of the tables before their insertion into the climate-frame. This type of container, inserted under the frame of the paintings, serves to obtain the isolation of the painting from the outside air and to monitor and record variations in the support and the degree of loading. Finally, the boards were inserted into the clima-frame by the Arterìa company.