The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
Bacchus
Rest on the Flight to Egypt
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
(not to scale)
The painting is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
a sample of this canvas is at the Paintings department of the Cleveland Museum of Art
The story started with the discovery of an application where Dean Yoder, Conservator of Painings explains the restauration of this painting. It shows an X-ray image with a pattern of the canvas.
A high quality X-ray images allowed me to decipher the pattern
X-radiograph courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
‘Bacchus’ and ‘Rest on the Flight to Egypt‘
Both paintings by Caravaggio are painted on a canvas with a pattern. I have not yet found information about the density of these canvases, thread count, e.i how many threads are in one or the other direction in a cm
