The Conservation of Salvator Mundi, No Not That One.
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Published 2019-12-16
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There are many issues a conservator may face when working on any given painting including old varnish and surface grime, lost paint and other superficial damage, past conservation or repair work and major structural failures. Sometimes the conservator must address all of them.
Though the artist is unknown this painting of Salvator Mundi dates back to approximately the early 1600's and in the 400 plus years since creation it has been handled and worked on many times with mixed results. Aside from major inpainting the wood panel has been repaired and even split due to poor framing choices.
This video walks us through the process of cleaning the work, removing old overpainting, addressing the structural failures and developing a novel solution to a problematic framing issue.
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All Comments (21)
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Hide glue? This is a slippery slope. I had a friend that used hide glue sometimes, and a few months ago we found him in an alley using staples
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Me: "Julian is so well spoken" Julian: "MORE CLAMPS IS MORE BETTER"
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Julien: “I’m going to use a material you wouldn’t expect me to use” Me: “STAPLES?”
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“The fasteners they put basically made the painting into a time bomb” Me, shoving shredded cheese into my face at 2:37 Am: omg what an idiot
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I’ve never enjoyed a comment section as much as I enjoy this comment section. We’re all on the same spiritual plane watching these videos.
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This painting is more moisturised than my face can ever be.
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Julian: “The hand on the other hand... heh.” Me: Fabulous. Fucking incredible. Truly deserves the world. Give him more paints. Excellent.
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this guy has the smoothest sponsorship transitions I've ever seen
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Julian: an absolute professional The comment section: we are out for the blood of long dead conservators
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The dislikes are from the previous conservators because Julian keeps roasting them
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Why did every single conservator before Julian have the conservation skills of a frozen lobster
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Julian: lists like ten reasons the foam is a good option Me: shhhhh it’s okay I trust you
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Everytime he paints with a certain color, I'm like: Bruh, that's not even close to the same color. Untill he zooms out, it just blends in.
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If in the future someone doesn’t like your retouching I’m throwing fists
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Julian: "An extra set of hands would make this easier" Me: "I am available right now"
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'Now I'm using glasses here because I'd like to keep my eyesight'
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Last time I was this early, Julian was still scraping
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“As you can see...” Me not knowing what he is talking about eating chips in mi bed: “yep I can see it”
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i just want to appreciate that he takes the time to actually fix the painting, film it using various camera angles to keep things interesting, editing the hours of footage, putting a voiceover on it, and uploading the final video. just wanted to say thank you
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me: oh you have a greenhouse! what are you growing in there? Julian: Art
