RECENTE PROJECTEN

• Services provided

  Authentication, appraisal, condition report, full restoration of painting and frame

• Painter

  Unknown

• Title of painting

  Part of Halle Basilica miracle cycle

• Date

  17th Century

• Location of painting

  Belgium

• Type of owner

  Church

• Project status

  Completed

• Restoration

  The painting was still on its original 17^th century frame upon which it was directly stretched and fixated with leather strips and iron nails. This made restoration substantially more complex as it could not be taken out of its frame. Restoration involved revealing the original stretching system, by stripping 19^th Century additions. The original paint layers of the frame were fixated with gaps filled, and the frame was retouched, gilded and aged. A stratigraphic window with original 17^th Century paint layers on the frame was revealed. The painting underwent surface cleaning, mending of tears, removal of old retouches and other small interventions to bring the painting in line with the other paintings of Maria Miracles in the Basilica of Halle.

This painting is part of a collection of paintings called the Virgin Mary miracle series, depicting miracles that have taken place throughout the centuries in and around the town of Halle. The Virgin Mary veneration in Halle dates back to at least the 8^th Century. Justus Lipsius, one of the most renowned humanists in Renaissance Europe devoted a book to the miracle series.

• Back of the painting covered with bitunous black paint

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• Original 17th c. stretching technique of canvas directly onto the frame

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• BEVA glued

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• Paint layer during innitial cleaning

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• Frame and paint layer before restoration

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• Right corner before filling

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• Frame, right corner, after restoration

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• Frame, after fixation and filling, before retouching and gilding

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• Men before restoration

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• Men after restoration

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• Front after restoration

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