文摘
In this paper, a long-term monitoring experience on a panel painting, carried out using a whole set of analytical tools before the scheduled conservation intervention, is described. The object under analysis is a painting of the XVI century, “The daughters of the Emperor Ferdinand I” by Jakob Seisenegger, painted around 1534 and preserved in the storerooms of the Superintendency of the Trento Province and of pertinence of the Buonconsiglio Castle. The wooden support is built using many narrow planks of pear wood; some degradation evidences are visible, caused by insects and by the previous storing conditions. Old strong conservation interventions, when the present battened crosspieces structure was applied, have induced the non-optimal state of conservation as well. The panel painting has been monitored for some years in its storeroom, climatically uncontrolled for most of the time, using:displacement transducers, put in different positions, relevant from the structural point of view;