Abstract
This paper presents conservation and restoration of oil painting by artist Antonio Schranz dating back to 1841AD, and it represents a landscape painting on the Bosphorus, where it was suffering from major manifestations of deterioration, such as flaking, cracking, shrinkage, previous restoration processes in the paint layer, flaking and cracking in the ground paint layer, holes and dirt and severe weakness in the support layer and a large yellowing in the varnish layer. Modern methods of tests and analysis were used to find the type of canvas, the number of warp and weft in the canvas, the type of white filler and bonding material on the ground painting layer, Type of colored materials, and the color medium type. While the treatment was done strengthening and lining Painting using BEVA 371 material and using the kauter Device to stick the cracks, also, the old varnish has been removed and replaced with a modern varnish from acrylic resin.