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The specialization of panel supports restoration

George Bisacca, Restorer, 1985-What's on

Restoration of the panel supports is a very curious specialization, because although there are many schools for restoration worldwide, at academic university level or sometimes dedicated programs, but nearly none of them have a specialization in the treatment of supports. It’s essential to combine both, an understanding of art history and sort of the philosophy of painting. So, various cracks, splits, warping and deformations require incredible accurate and very dangerous treatments to make perfect surface level of the paint film which already exist. Obviously, it’s very difficult to work on something where you have to respect the paint film. It’s a very complex operation, and you have to really invent the proper course of action for each case that you work on. There’re many different types of problems.