Oil With Architecture

Fantasy place?
The surface is varnished but someone smoked a lot around the painting.
What's good for cleaning?

 

Spit...seriously.

 

I know, saliva works good for dirty oil paintings but may not work here. The varnish is soaked with tarnish that seems not to come off that easily.

 

Think it's meant to be a reconstruction of the Appian Way.

Debora

 

Hi,
We cleaned a lot of old (125 years) church paintings which were covered with smoke (incense) and more smoke from a fire. It took a hellva amount of spit but they cleaned up nicely.
greg

 

Thanks Debora. Very likely the Appian Way and the artist I guess used his imagination to reconstruct the buildings.

 

Very similar to some transfer designs on English porcelain.