… after a beautiful cooperation in sessions and in writing, thinking and sharing the knowledge with co-authors Joanna Riedel Dunn and Marie Ekstedt Bjersing I feel proud to share that the narrative we wrote has been accepted for publication in the upcoming Facture VIII ! Thanks to Laura Panadero for your contributions and positive energy as the editor for this volume at the National Gallery of Art
Thanks to Laura Panadero for your support and positive energy as editor at the NGA
… after a beautiful cooperation in sessions and in writing, thinking and sharing the knowledge with co-authors Joanna Riedel Dunn and Marie Ekstedt Bjersing I feel proud to share that the narrative we wrote has been accepted for publication in the upcoming Facture VIII ! Thanks to Laura Panadero for your contributions and positive energy as the editor for this volume at the National Gallery of Art
This is what I wrote in 2024:
…”Three paintings in the collection of the National Gallery of Art that are on a canvas with a woven pattern: analyses and reconstruction in context with period textile finds”
Helena Loermans and Joanna Dunn
First of all many thanks to Joanna Riedel Dunn for sharing with me, in 2019, the high resolution xray images of the paintings. It was very important to have support from conservators in the world museums. Without you this project would never have gone forward so successfully.
The proposal to write a narrative about the research and reconstructions at Lab O for the upcoming volume of “Facture” has been approved.
The story will focus on three paintings that are located in The National Gallery of Art in Washington and of which I have done the analyses shortly after the Conserving Canvas Symposium, organised by The Getty Foundation at Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.
The first case study involves “Saint Martin and the Beggar” and “The Virgin and Child with St Martina and St Agnes” by El Greco” originally in the “Capella de San Jose” in Toledo.
The third case study involves “Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos” by Titian
We are looking forward to start writing
…revealing the surface of Portrait of a Man by El Greco and Annunciation attributed to Francisco Correia was part of my presentation @ New Hand Lab and @ Universidade da Beira Interior
A privilege to share my work in an interdisciplinary conference!
Thanks to Andre Barata and Sara Velez for the invitation and thanks to New Hand Lab for the financial support
Portrait of a Man El Greco 1570-75, located in the Staten Museum in Copenhagen.
Note the close up parts where the pattern in the canvas is visible !
handwoven reconstruction of the canvas of Portrait of a Man El Greco 1570-75,
located in the Staten Museum in Copenhagen. Front and back; note where, highlighted in orange, warp threads are vertical on one side
they are horizontal on the other side.
Annunciation 1600, attributed to Francisco Correia and located
in the ‘Núcleo Museológico de Baixa Tamega’
Annunciation 1600, attributed to Francisco Correia and located in the ‘Núcleo Museológico de Baixa Tamega’
Reverse of the painting before conservation and re-lining.
Thanks to Rita Maltieira, for sharing photos and thesis @ Porto Catholic University , 2016
“Authenticated bones were wrapped up in textile fragments and were seen as Benedictine treasures of the Meuse region.”
in “Stof uit de kist” ISBN 90-6831-338-X D. 1991/0602/16
The pattern of one of the fragments has the same pattern as those in the canvas of El Greco ‘s Vision of Saint John (1608-14) and in Velázquez’s Adoration of the Magi (1619)
quote…“The first goal is to record all this knowledge, and preserve it,” says Loermans, who aims to create a database of weaving patterns and paintings. She hopes that researchers and conservators will start recording details about textile weaves in the canvases they treat and reach out if they find complex patterns.”
….thank you Catherine Dauriac and Alain Camilleri at Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp for writing and publishing “Secrets of Old Masters” in this amazing book
Thank you Janina Poskrobko, Cristina Balloffet Carr and the excellent team at the Department of Textile Conservation, for these contributions to the 50Th Anniversary Newsletter, I feel honoured!
