Przeniesienie dwóch warstw malarskich z feretronu z Wielgich z próbą osadzenia jednej z nich na nowym podłożu

• Authors: Lempart-Geratowska Marta

Title variants

EN

THE TRANSFER OF TWO PAINT LAYERS FROM THE PORTABLE ALTAR IN WIELGIE WITH AN ATTEMPTED PLACING OF ONE OF THEM ON A NEW BASE

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is a report from the conservation of a feretory, painted on two sides; the basic assumption of the undertaking was to uncover the original paintings with the simultaneous retention of the later layers. The transferred paintings were placed on a new base. The conservation was part of a diploma work, and applied the method proposed by J. Kucaba. Upon the base of technological research and the state of the object, the first stage of the work involved the attempted transfer of a fragment of the oil paint layer - „The Scapular Virgin Mary” - from the rewerse of the feretory (nineteenth-twentieth century). The succesive attempt pertained to the separation of the painting on the obverse - „St. Isidore the Ploughman". The applied method made use of the possibility of softening the secondary paint layer without damaging the original tempera layer. The softening process took place inside a chamberused for steaming with two-ethylic formamide. The painting was softened horizontally. Following the softening of the paint layer, a face composed of two layers of tissue paper and polyester foil was employed. The adhesive in this case was Velpon. The paint layer within the range of the oil underside was cut. These operations were repeated upon the occasion of treating each separated part of the painting, both on the reverse and the obverse. The following question concerned the placing of one of the fragments of the transferred paintings onto a new base. Finally, upon the base of numerous attempts, the selected method consists of placing putty, suitably coloured with the help of polyalcohol of vinyl, the adhesion of the relining layer made of tissue paper and the intervention layer, composed of polyurethane foam, cut in the shape of plates; the binder was a diffusion of polyoctane of vinyl in water. It became apparent, however, that this method caused a deformation of the paint surface. It became necessary to remove the wrong coating and to apply one closer to easel painting. The second undertaking consisted of impregnating a fragment of the painting with a wax-resin coating, the adhesion of an intervention layer composed of fabric, and the use of a wax-resin mixture, this time as a binder. All these stages were performed on a vaccuum table, and pertained only to „The Scapular Virgin Mary". This fragment was the placed on a new base, made of pine wood modified by the so-called pine lignomer. The adhesive was in this instance polyoctane of vinyl in a solvent. After a certain time, it was noticed that the base became excessively uneven; this fact led to a decision to change the base. The new base was composed of limewood impregnated with shellac, while the adhesive was once again a wax-resin mixture. In the final stage, losses in the paint layer were replenished and warnish was applied. As a result of the conducted operations sthree independent objects were obtained: a feretory painted on two sides, with an uncovered original polychromy from 1690, and two paintingstransfers: „The Scapular Virgin Mary" and „St. Insidore the Ploughman" (translated by A. Rodzińska - Chojnowska)

Keywords

PL

rozdzielenie warstw malarskich; feretron; polichromia; konserwacja techniczna

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1992
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 184-191

Dates

published

1992

Contributors

author

Lempart-Geratowska Marta

References

• J. Kucaba, Rozwarstwienie XIX-wiecznego malowidła temperowego „Ostatnia wieczerza" z malowanej temperą ikony z I poi. XVI wieku Św. Paraskewii Tymowskiej, z Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego w Sanoku . Promotor prof. Z. Medwecka, praca dyplomowa, WKDS ASP w Krakowie, 1983-1984 r.

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247