EASEL PAINTINGS / PANEL / POLYCHROME SCULPTURE
Everything here arrived in worse condition
A studio of six conservators working for museums, churches and private collections. We do not restore paintings to how we imagine they looked. We stabilise what survives, remove what was added later, and document every decision so the next conservator can undo ours.
Drag it and take the varnish off
Left of the handle is the panel as it came to us: varnish oxidised to brown, an overpaint applied in the 1890s, craquelure through the whole surface and a loss where the gesso lifted from the board. Right of it is the same panel after treatment, with the fill retouched in visible hatching so nobody mistakes our hand for the artist's.
Illustrative diagram. Condition reports are issued in full, with raking light and ultraviolet plates.
Recent treatments
005 entries- PL.2026.014
Virgin and Child with Donor
Tempera on poplar panel
Varnish removal, cradle release, consolidation
2026 - PL.2025.221
Portrait of a Merchant
Oil on oak panel
Overpaint removal and retouching
2025 - PL.2025.108
Altarpiece, right wing
Oil and gold on panel
Structural join repair, regilding of losses
2025 - PL.2024.077
Landscape with Cattle
Oil on canvas
Lining, tear repair, revarnishing
2024 - PL.2024.031
Polychrome Saint
Carved limewood, polychrome
Consolidation of flaking polychromy
2024
Disciplines
- Examination and reporting
- Raking light, ultraviolet, infrared reflectography and cross-section analysis, issued as a written condition report before any treatment is proposed.
- Structural treatment
- Panel splits and joins, cradle release, canvas tears, lining and strip-lining, carried out only where the object's stability requires it.
- Surface treatment
- Varnish removal, overpaint removal, consolidation of flaking paint, and retouching in reversible materials that a future conservator can lift.
- Preventive conservation
- Environmental survey, glazing and framing advice, and handling and transport specifications for loans and installations.
Send us photographs and the object's history.
- Telephone
- +39 055 219 447
- Studio
- Via delle Belle Donne 14, Firenze
- Discipline
- Paintings conservation, est. 1988