GALLERIE DELL'ACCADEMIA

CABINET FOR GIORGIONE’S CASTELFRANCO MADONNA

VENICE, ITALY

2003

On the occasion of the new display of the Pala di Castelfranco, Goppion designed and made a special cabinet with controlled stabilisation of the relative humidity. The cabinet comprises a solid steel base while the part used to display the work has extra-light, reflection-free, stratified glass panels of the same sort as used for the panels installed at the Wellcome Trust Gallery of the British Museum. Particular attention has been paid to the support of the work, studied in such a way as interact as little as possible with the delicate wooden panel while using materials whose application has been tried and tested many times.