The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (1606-07)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Caravaggio painted The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (1606-7) on a canvas with a woven pattern
The painting is in the collection 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.
Many thanks to Marie Ekstedt Bjersing for her experience that lead to a correction of the earlier analyses and weave draft of this pattern.
X-radiograph courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
handmade drawing of the repeat of the pattern 2017
Weave draft, computer generated in Weavelt, a handweaving design software program.
13 shafts
13 treadles
88 warp ends
88 weft passes
reconstruction in progress