Paintings Restoration

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Restoration of a wooden statue
This is a restoration of a wooden statue dated 1786. It represents Saint Vito. This work was in bad conditions after having been abandoned for many years. This statue was found in the attic of a 1601 convent. The operation begun, first of all, with a moth-repellent treatment using a substance injected in every single hole of the statue.
  I was able to get rid of all the moths, to consolidate the wooden structure and deter the future formation of the noxious insects. At the end of this operation I counted more than 3400 holes.

Then I cleaned the statue in order to remove all the dirt that had accumulated over time. This dirt accumulated was mostly due to the smoke of the church candles. Once the cleaning done, I filled all the holes caused by the moths using a paste made of wax mixed with fine sawdust, and then I puttied all the different holes. At the end, after having reintegrated the missing parts with some retouched colours, I protected the wooden statue with a glossy varnish.

This is another restoration of a dry clay and a "papier-mâché" statue. I started with the cleaning of the statue, then I reproduced its missing parts and I put a ketonic satined paint on the statue to protect it from the external agents and to give it the look it had in the past.

 

This work is the remaking of an old wooden altar. Through a long image searching we found the old altar. So on the basis of old photos, after a long period of design and construction of a plastic wood scale 1:5, we have build the altar that once decorated a side chapel of a 17th century church. The execution of this project, has requested assistance for the construction, carving and inlay, with a final result very similar to the old one.



  This restoration regards a wooden statue representing St. Rocco. The statue has been restored in the past years but still presented more than 700 holes due to damaging insects.

For this statue we have also realized a new base with green painted marble where the lines are made with golden foil.


 

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