I'm curious is anyone can provide and information on historical wood art panels. Some of the paintings that have best survived from centuries past were painted on wood rather than canvass. I've heard of poplar, oak, cherry and many other woods being used.
I'd like to make some larger panels perhaps 2' x 2' up to 4' x 4'. I assume that panels this size would typically be "cradled" which appears to be a structural frame behind the panel. I'd like to make them as similar as possible as they might have been made historically. I don't have a particular time frame in mind, just something that might have been correct 100 or 200 years ago.
I'd appreciate any tips or pointers toward more detailed information. How they were built, what materials, fasteners or tools were used, etc.
I'm reading through http://www.getty.edu/conservation/pu...paintings2.pdf, but it's a scholarly document, not really a how-to.