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“Os padrões ocultos nas pinturas de Diego Velázquez”

Posted on by Helena Loermans

Looking very much forward to give my first presentation next week for Factum Foundation and Casa Natal de Velázquez. Because of Covid-19 it will be on line.

https://www.factumfoundation.org/ind/628/casa-natal-de-velÃ-zquez

https://casanatalvelazquez.com

Last February I applied for a grant at Gulbenkian Foundation but it has not been approved.

I did not know by then that another opportunity was waiting at Factum Foundation…

On 3th of March I wrote:…I felt encouraged to present a proposal for a grant at the Gulbenkian Foundation to decipher the seven canvases with a pattern, as mentioned in this publication. Thanks to all of you who believe in this project.
Especial thanks to Maria Manuela Santana, Textile Conservator at the Palacio da Ajuda in Lisbon and directive member of CIETA, and to Ian McClure, Chief Conservator at Yale University Art Gallery for their reference letters.

…where the diagonals do not line up perfectly…

Posted on by Helena Loermans
The weave draft of the canvas of “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz”
the first time I saw a draft where the diagonals did not line up.
citation:
“This cannot be attributed to a fault in the use of the pedals, because the reproduction is constant, but to an intentional idea of the weaver’s due to a cause we do not know.
This rhombus may be called <twill based,> of (3.1,3.2, 1.2), which comprises
12 threads and 12 pick in the evolution cycle and needs for its production
12 shaft, operated by twelve pedals. The union ol the pedals to the shalt is done according to the twill base .” Mantilla de los Rios ICCROM library 20170922141234, 1973
First analyses of two other canvases of El Greco paintings in which it looks as if the diagonals also do not line up!

left: The Assumption of the Virgin, 1577–79
Oil on canvas; 403.2 × 211.8 cm (1583⁄4 × 833⁄4 in.) The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague, 1906.99
Xray image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

right: The Disrobing of Christ, 1577–79.
Oil on canvas; 285 × 173 cm (1123⁄16 × 681⁄8 in.). Toledo Cathedral.
source Xray image: Alba Carcelén, Laura (2015) Los soportes textiles utilizados por los pintores españoles a lo largo del siglo XVII: contexto histórico y estudio técnico a través de la radiografía. [Thesis]
Interesting is that the same texture was found in an antependium from Middelburg-Nassau -Grimbergen, dated to the first third of the 16th century and in a fragment of linen in the collection of the Abbey in St Truiden in Tongeren, Belgium

“Os padrões ocultos nas pinturas de Diego Velázquez”

Posted on by Helena Loermans

…I felt encouraged to present a proposal for a grant at the Gulbenkian Foundation to decipher the seven canvases with a pattern, as mentioned in this publication.

Thanks to all of you who believe in this project.
Especial thanks to Maria Manuela Santana, Textile Conservator at the Palacio da Ajuda in Lisbon and directive member of CIETA, and to Ian McClure, Chief Conservator at Yale University Art Gallery for their reference letters.

Fingers crossed!

Exposição ‘Decifrar Telas Históricas’ em Odemira

Posted on by Helena Loermans

PROLONGADA ate dia 28 de fevereiro

Espaço CRIAR Centro Em Rede de Inovação do Artesanato Regional, Travessa do Miradoro no 1, Odemira

até dia 31 de janeiro das 13.00 às 17,30 h
ou por marcação
(+351 96809009quatro)

The exhibition takes place at CRIAR, the new space of the Association of Artisans CACO in Odemira. (Very close to the ‘Câmara Municipal’ building.) This picture was taken last Saturday looking out of the window there…
‘El Greco, ‘Vieuw of Toledo’ located at MET museum http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436575
Odemira ,
Thank you Juan José Morales (author) for your comment “…beautiful village, beautiful photograph. Reminds me of El Greco’s ‘Vieuw of Toledo’ “

El Greco painted ‘Vista e Plano de Toledo’ on a canvas with a pattern !
source:
Carmen Garrido, Cuad. Art. Gr., 40, 2009, 53-62.
The painting is located in the El Greco Museum, Toledo