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Date: 2014-10-07

After

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After IMAGE

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Goliath

The team continued to apply fills to areas of loss and tone fills using red-brown gouache paints

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Date: 2014-10-07

Before

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Before IMAGE

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After

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Ruspoli Collection

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Date: 2014-10-15

Learning from the Collection

Conservation interns/volunteers and Villanova students were able to study the collection for the first time since the collection's arrival in the 1950's. The top image features graduate Chemistry student Kirsten Watts and project intern Allison Rabent performing non-destructive pigment analysis using X-Ray Fluorescence. The bottom image features Villanova student Alexandra Stump and Professor Timothy McCall examining a triptych.

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Date: 2014-10-15

X-radiography of the Collection

Several paintings in the Ruspoli collection were also examined using x-radiography. The x-ray image of the Madonna (artist unknown) shown above shows that the artist made almost no changes to the composition during the painting process (the wooden plugs on the back of the painting are also visible in the x-ray image). The painting depicting a dark church interior (attributed to Peeter Neefs?) showed a hidden painting beneath the visible image. The artist cut down a larger composition and turned the canvas sideways (the image of a kneeling nun can be seen) before he began to paint the church scene on top.

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Date: 2014-10-15

Public Outreach

Outside scholars and Villanova faculty/staff were invited to examine the collection as well as Art History Departments from nearby institutions like Dr. Marcia Hall's class from Temple University (Also pictured in the Top Image: University of Delaware Professor Brian Baade, Professor Anthony Lagalante, Professor and Dean Adele Lindenmeyr, and Professor Timothy McCall)

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Date: 2014-10-26

August 2014

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Date: 2014-08-05

2014-08 IMAGE

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Continued with Filling in Upper Section

Continued to apply fills and tone losses throughout upper section.

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Date: 2014-08-07

Filling/Toning in Upper Section

After Modostuc was applied to losses in the paint, red-brown gouache paints were used to tone the fills (Pictured Here: Allison Rabent)

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Date: 2014-08-07

Continued with Filling/Toning of Upper Section

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Date: 2014-08-15

King Saul

The team continued to apply fills and tone losses throughout the upper section of the painting.

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Date: 2014-08-15

Before Toning

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Before IMAGE

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