Mosaic Mortars - Why and How We Study Them?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68407700:21720/18:00323832

Result on the web

<a href="https://mosaik-tirol.at/info/MosaicConnection-Bauerova.pdf" target="_blank" >https://mosaik-tirol.at/info/MosaicConnection-Bauerova.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mosaic Mortars - Why and How We Study Them?

Original language description

In the course of time the status of modern mosaics (e.g. late 19th and 20th century) is shifting from contemporary artworks to historic monuments. Since they have not been considered “enough historic” so far, quite low attention has been drawn to them and their conservation. Thus little is known about their materials composition and degradation processes. The lack of information concerns not only the materials of tesserae but also fixing mortars and mortar beds. To our knowledge a systematic comparative research into materials characterization of mosaic mortars and their interactions with the tesserae and environment (salts, moisture) has not been carried out. This paper presents the first steps of an attempt to characterize and compare mortars of mosaics ascribed to an Innsbruck mosaic workshop Neuhauser found in 1877 [1]. The goal of the study is to find out whether there could be any common features in the mosaic mortars studied which could alternatively be used as “fingerprints” characteristic for Neuhauser´s mortars. At the same time the paper points out fulfilling this goal will be a long-term process requiring an international and interdisciplinary cooperation. The five mosaics studied at at the first stage of the research come from the turn of 19th and 20th century, are situated in different places and are mostly parts of sepulcher decoration. Their overview is given in Table 1. The mosaic Resurrected Christ from Peluněk sepulcher in Malvazinky Cemetery in Prague is mentioned in archival documents of the Tiroler Glasmalerei/ Neuhauser Company and its Innsbruck origin is therefore certain.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20101 - Civil engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-13525S" target="_blank" >GA18-13525S: Modern mosaic mortars in a microscope – methods for their materials characterization and degradation studies</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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