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The Holy Kinship by Lucas Cranach the Elder - Insight into a restoration project at the Paintings Gallery

Datum
Time
Event Label
Lecture (German)
Organisational Units
Paintings Gallery
Location Description
Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna
Gemäldegalerie, 1. floor

Tours: 19:30 h / 20:30 h
You can visit the Paintings Gallery from 19-22 h
on this evenig.

The Holy Kinship by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1510/1512) is one of the highlights of the Paintings Gallery collection. We explain the conservation challenges of the panel painting and take a look beneath the paint layer using infrared reflectography.

Claudia Koch (Head of the Paintings Gallery Collection) explains the conservation problems of the panel painting and the resulting necessary measures. Ernst Hammerschmid (INTK lecturer) presents an example of the infrared reflectography examination method, which makes it possible to look under the paint layer.