Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE)
Find below the portfolio projects related to Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE):
Lecture: ‘Classification of dyes and colorstuff’ at the IPCE
A wide variety of products providing colour to leather and paper are often imprecisely categorized. A correct classification contributes to a better understanding of the their features and is therefore useful both in the recognition in the materials eligible for conservation, as well as in the application of dyes and colourstuff for a proper in-paint and retouch. The dyes and colorants will be discussed according to the most common classifications: pigment based or not, natural/synthetic and, above all, their substantivity: direct, ionic, reactive and complex.
Mrs. Daydí Pastel portrait by Fèlix Mestres
Conservation of pastel drawing on paper and cardboard by Spanish painter Felix Mestres. Portrait of Mrs. Carolina Daydí. Dry cleaning, mould removal with HEPA vacuuming, in-painting of foxing stains.
Lecture: ‘Diving in wet treatments’ 2nd edition (IPCE).
First edition of the confernces cicle Re-Enpapelamos was held solely in-person. This year it is repeated free and on-line. ¿Which are the main benefits of bathing? ¿Do wet treatments justify the potential drawbacks involved in them? Let's see it in four diverese artefacts, washed from least to major degree: a pencil drawing, a gouache and two hand-coloured manuscripts.
Pencil drawing by J.A.D. Ingres
Conservation of pencil drawing by J.A.D. Ingres. Pencil drawing on woven paper with discolouration and foxing stains, tears, insect depositions. Dry cleaning, mechanical removal of depositions, wet cleaning, chemical treatment and reinforcement.
Lecture ‘Diving in wet treatments’, first in-person edition (IPCE)
¿Which are the main benefits of bathing? ¿Do wet treatments justify the potential drawbacks involved in them? Let's see it in four diverese artefacts, washed from least to major degree: a pencil drawing, a gouache and two hand-coloured manuscripts.
Conservation of gouache on paper, painting by Joan Ponç
"Gran Pastoral", gouache on paper, 83 x 112 cm. The artwork was lined on a Kraft paper with tapes and synthetic adhesives. It had losses and tears, and remarkable discolouration. The paper was extremely brittle. Tape and synthetic adhesives removal. Capillary wash and light bleaching, infilling of losses, lining, inpainting (mimetic criteria in the small ones, neutral color in the bigger ones).
