Konserwacja zabytkowego wystroju i aranżacja wnętrz klasztoru pobenedyktyńskiego na Świętym Krzyżu

• Authors: Płuska Ireneusz

Title variants

EN

THE CONSERVATION OF THE DECORATION AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE INTERIOR OF THE POST-BENEDICTINE ŚWIĘTY KRZYŻ (HOLY CROSS) MONASTERY

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

In the course of conservation work we intervene not into the material structure of works of art, but also essentially influence its final artistic form.The intention of the undertaking is, above all, to prolong the material existence of the monument, although an equally important task is to displav the authentic artistic merits of the artwork, and to reinstate a possibility of aesthetic influence. Those universally known truths in confrontation with a concrete monument - in this case, the monastery of the Holy Cross -designated for the conservationists a definite trend of work. The combination of circumstances due to the number of historical layers, their rank and state of preservation, the size of the object, technical possibilities and the function of the monument, compelled the team of conservationists ( Krzysztof Biliński, Marian Paciorek and Ireneusz Pluska ) to seek an individual path towards optimal solutions. In this sense, we can speak about conservation authorship i.e. the authorship of the conservation conception which in this concrete case indicated methods of realization. The authors of the conservation undertaking believe that the prime postulate of bringing forth the authentic value of the monument has been realized. The extensively damaged works have regained their ability to exert an artistic impact. The Holy Cross monastery on Łysa Gora ( 595 metres above sea level ) in the Kielce voivodship is of great prominence for national history and culture. This is the site of the first Polish apothecary and hospital, and a centre of writing in the Polish language. The architecture and decoration of the interiors combine various styles, from Romanesque, Gothic, the Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism up to modern times. Conservation and display was conducted chiefly in the Gothic cloister, the Baroque Oleśnicki chapel and the Gothic sacristy. In the cloister. conservation included the Romanesque wall of the original church, the brick arches of the vault, keystones ans corbels, stone portals and epitaphs dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, metal lattice from the seventeenth century, as well as a series of murals from the eighteenth century. In the Oleśnicki chapel conservation was conducted on missing fragments of murals by Maciej Reichan (1782) which were restored, while painted marbleization of the panneling was reconstructed. In the sacristy, a large fragment of a Renaissance painting was uncovered and subsequently displayed, and eighteenth-century wall decoration of the vault were renovated.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1991
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 154-160

Dates

published

1991

Contributors

author

Płuska Ireneusz

• Wydział Konserwacji Dzieł Sztuki ASP - Kraków

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247