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 published on e-Preservation Science: A. Cosentino, S. Stout “Photoshop and Multispectral Imaging for Art Documentation” e-PS, 2014, 11, 91-98. – Download – I want to show my appreciation for the e-Preservation Science journal. It is one of the few open access journals related to the conservation field. They have a REAL IMPACT on conservation practices…
We just delivered our talk at OKOA 2016 (in Italian). The preservation of cultural heritage is a critical civic responsibility especially in Italy where the vast cultural heritage is widespread from the renowned mega-cities of Rome, Florence and Venice to almost every village. This rich distribution of cultural heritage property demands local civic engagement simply…
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) could be considered the most important Spanish painter in the 17th century. He depicted women and children of his time and major religious works mostly between 1670 to 1682. He was extremely popular and he influenced artists such as Thomas Gainsborough which was his admirer. Ground layers and imprimitura An extensive…
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 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
We just added a new interactive table to easily retrieve technical info on each of the 54 historical pigments on our Pigments Checker. It is now immediate to read the info provided by the manufacturer and also check the 2 main web resources on artistic pigments, Pigments Through the Ages and the new Colourlex. Visit the…
