During the conservation of the later painting the numerous paint losses indicated to the skilled conservators that another painting was well preserved behind it and it was worth to separate them (strappo). An high quality Annunciation in the style of the XVII century was revealed. Again, some paint losses showed that the just discovered painting was actually heavily modified itself.
CHSOS contributed the diagnostics examination to understand the actual composition and the extent of the previous version.
Special thanks to the community of Nunziata di Mascali which promoted the study, to Rotary Giarre which funded the conservation and the diagnostics campaign, to Dr Buda and Cappa for supporting CHSOS and to Calvagna Conservation Laboratory to let us do the examination in their studio.
Just performed Technical Examination on a large painting by Carpaccio (1465-1526) in Slovenia for the Institute for Protection of Cultural Heritage CHSOS was invited for a two-days technical examination service on March 25-26 in Ljubljana by Barbka Gosar Hirci, the Head of easel paintings department. They have been restoring already three large paintings of Vittore…
We are celebrating our new Studio! We moved to an 80 square meters (860 square foot) open space. It is an historical building (XVIII century) in downtown Viagrande, Italy, the Sapienza Palace.
We have been shipping our Pigments Checker to conservators and researchers and we are glad now to receive photos showing how they use it for their studies. See all our tools we make for art examination on our TOOLS Page
