On canvas : preserving the structure of paintings /
"An examination of the history, practice, and conservation of painting on canvas"--Provided by publisher.
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Los Angeles :
The Getty Conservation Institute,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Structure and history
- Preparation of a canvas for painting
- Component layers
- Artists' materials suppliers
- Practical advice to artists
- Innovative painting supports
- Texture and aesthetic properties
- Painting on canvas and historic examples
- Mediums and supports in western art
- Tuchlein: early european paintings on canvas
- Venetian paintings on canvas
- Seventeenth-century netherlandish paintings on canvas
- Nineteenth-century british paintings on canvas
- Twentieth-century paintings on canvas
- Production of woven textiles for painting
- Flax
- Flax fibers under the microscope
- Linen
- Hemp
- Cotton
- Lining: history and developments
- Glue lining
- Wax-resin lining
- Synthetic adhesives
- Stretchers
- Marouflage
- Research on structural treatment
- Properties and aging
- Mechanical properties of canvas, ground, and size layers
- Mechanical properties
- Biaxial stretching
- Shear stresses
- Effects of temperature
- Behavior of canvas paintings in response to RH change
- Mechanics of the size layer
- Mechanical modeling of paintings
- Moisture and high temperature in paint morphology
- Rates of moisture response of materials
- Implications of rh measurement in museum environments
- The structure of cellulose and its aging in canvas
- Structure of plant cell walls and microfibrils in bast fibers
- Absorption of water
- Noncellulose components
- Aging of canvas
- Color changes from intermittent light exposure
- Acidity
- Assessing the condition of a canvas
- Preventing acidity and hydrolysis
- Preventing oxidation
- Drying, curing, and aging of oil grounds and paints
- Oil grounds
- Autoxidation
- Aging of dried oil grounds
- Physical deterioration of paintings on canvas
- Cracking of oil grounds on canvas
- Physical effect of the size layer
- Impacts
- Long-term relaxation effects
- Alkyd paints and grounds
- Acrylic grounds
- Delamination of paint and ground from sized canvas
- Artist practice and delamination of paint layers
- Drying contraction cracks
- Conservation
- Collections care
- History of pollution, glazing, and backboards
- Museum air-conditioning
- Preventive conservation
- Organization
- Loan and transport of paintings
- Microclimate frames
- Internally generated gaseous and volatile pollutants
- Structural treatments and readily reversible interventions
- Moisture treatments
- Consolidation
- Traditional water-soluble consolidants
- Tear mending
- Deacidification
- Readily reversible canvas treatments
- Conclusions.