How do artists apply gold sheets or achieve the gilded effect? In Exploring gold, museum conservators explain the different techniques and instruments used in medieval mural paintings and altarpieces.

By exposing the process of gilding we also explain how some of the work carried out by the restoration team is done.

• Presentation of Exploring gold how Gothic art artists applied gold and how the museum’s curators-conservators have applied different criteria of intervention in the golds throughout our history. 

• Project of the Department of restoration and preventive conservation of the museum
• Free
• From 9/03/2017 to 18/06/2017

Related activities

• Guided visits, for free, with curators-conservators to talk about key aspects of their work related to gold and other works in the collection: Tuesday March14th, Wednesday April 12th, Wednesday May 17th and Wednesday June 7th, at 5 p.m.

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