Technical Study and Re-treatment of a Renaissance Statue of Mars Forming Part of the Decoration of the Bučovice Château in Southern Moravia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00393630.2025.2450973" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00393630.2025.2450973</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2025.2450973" target="_blank" >10.1080/00393630.2025.2450973</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Technical Study and Re-treatment of a Renaissance Statue of Mars Forming Part of the Decoration of the Bučovice Château in Southern Moravia

Original language description

This article presents the results of the examination and restoration treatment of the stucco decoration of a lunette with the sculpture of Mars located in the Bučovice Château in southern Moravia. The sculptural decoration of the Château represents one of the pinnacles of Renaissance stucco art north of the Alps in the second half of the sixteenth century. A unique combination of materials and techniques was used in its creation. The figure of Mars is based on a re-purposed terracotta statue, finished with stucco, polychrome painting, gilding, and coloured glass inlays. The aim of the current restoration was to reduce an inconsiderate intervention from the 1950s and restore the original to an earlier historical form that corresponds to the artistic conception of the neighbouring statues and the rest of the decoration of the chamber. The restoration was based on an interdisciplinary analysis of the statue&apos;s original technique, material composition, and surface finishes, including gilding and glass inlays. A complex examination was undertaken as part of the larger project ‘Renaissance and Mannerist Stucco Art in Bohemia and Moravia.’ The intervention involved testing conservation methods, such as consolidating the ground layer, cleaning, removing overpaint and secondary gilding, and reintegrating missing terracotta parts and surface finishes. The choice of the method for retouching the gilded areas was of particular importance because it allowed the possibility to preserve the existing fragments of gilding and, at the same time, visually connect them as a whole.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studies in Conservation

ISSN

0039-3630

e-ISSN

2047-0584

Volume of the periodical

70

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

"459–476"

UT code for WoS article

001400487700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85215506683