The Holy Kinship by Lucas Cranach the Elder - Insight into a restoration project at the Paintings Gallery
The Holy Kinship by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1510/1512) is one of the highlights of the Paintings Gallery collection. We explain the conservation challenges of the panel painting and take a look beneath the paint layer using infrared reflectography.
Detail: The Holy Kinship by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1510/1512), Paintings Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Holy Kinship (detail),1510–1512, infrared reflectography © INTK 2023 Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Katja Sterflinger
Claudia Koch (Head of the Paintings Gallery Collection) explains the conservation problems of the panel painting and the resulting necessary measures. Ernst Hammerschmid (INTK lecturer) presents an example of the infrared reflectography examination method, which makes it possible to look under the paint layer.