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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Studies in Conservation

ISSN

0039-3630

e-ISSN

2047-0584

Svazek periodika

70

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

"459–476"

Kód UT WoS článku

001400487700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85215506683