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The Conservation of Salvator Mundi, No Not That One. AD FREE
🕑 Added 2020-10-08 23:07:49 +0000 UTCThere are many issues a conservator may face when working on any given painting including old varnish and surface grime, lost paint and other superficial damage, past conservation or repair work and major structural failures. Sometimes the conservator must address all of them.
Though the artist is unknown this painting of Salvator Mundi dates back to approximately the early 1600's and in the 400 plus years since creation it has been handled and worked on many times with mixed results. Aside from major inpainting the wood panel has been repaired and even split due to poor framing choices.
This video walks us through the process of cleaning the work, removing old overpainting, addressing the structural failures and developing a novel solution to a problematic framing issue.
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Tiffanyyyyy B
I wonder do you ever run into the issue of not knowing what's original? For example on this one, the frame choice was terrible. There was so much "conservation" done, couldn't it be possible the poor frame choice was the work of a previous conservator?
