A beautiful piece of silver gilded artifact depicting a war scene came to our lab in 2007. It was previously wrongly restored by applying a thick layer of silver acrylic colour to hide the faults. Our first step was to remove the silver paint layer. This took a lot of time and efforts. Once the silver paint was apparently removed, it was required to study … Continue reading Case study of a silver gilded artifact

Cleaning seems a simple process and i have seen people in charge of historically important collections doing disastrous actions leading to irreversible damage of important art or history objects. It might apparently be a simple cleaning job, but it is the most important step that needs to be understood in all possible analytical and scientific ways before actually doing it. This is so, because, it … Continue reading One of the cleaning treatments of an oil on canvas painting: step by step approach