The conservation of immobile monuments is perceived predominantly from the viewpoint of sciences about art and the technical sciences. Nonetheless, it possesses an organisational- legal dimension, which has been gaining increasing importance especially in the last decades; this holds true also for the Polish democratic state of the law as conceived by the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. The aspect in question was significant for many historical conservation undertakings, today regarded as classical and concerning historical monuments in Polish lands. This was the type of conservation which during the nineteenth century involved the Cracow Cloth Halls (Sukiennice), performed according to a project by T. Pryliñski and supervised by him. Heretofore literature has not analysed more extensively the legal–organisational aspects of the investment connected with the aforementioned project, which has been characterised only marginally. The presented article deals with an analysis of assorted legal and organisational aspects, with reference to the contemporary legal system. It is characteristic that the typical feature of the conservation-investment efforts of the period, despite the absence of regulations concerning public commissions which would have corresponded to the legal standards of the time, was the attention paid to a proper administration of public means. The extremely important principle of the openness of public activity and expenses was realised in practice. Apart from the fundamental literature on the subject the text is based also on archival documents, including the resolutions of the Cracow Town Council, numerous reports and other archival material, supplemented with archival photographs, of which three, showing the end stages of the conservation of the Cloth Halls, had never been published. The purpose of the article, apart from its historical– cognitive function, is to draw attention to legal and organisational aspects of conservation, frequently ignored and, at times, even recognised as a hindrance. The presented study demonstrates that this aspect preceded, by no means as of today, the conservation proper of the historical monument, carried out by architects, conservators, “manual” workers and representatives of other professions, whose participation is indispensable in the conservation process as a whole.
L’article présent est l’extrait d’un ouvrage plus vaste. La forme abrégée des considérations avait obligée l ’auteur à se borner à deux problèmes: au style et à la méthode de restauration qui sont en quelque sorte le fondement des problèmes de la conservation de Cracovie dans les années 1800—1863. Les tendances vers le style classique et vers le style romantique qui paraissent dans cette période ont été illustrées par l’histoire de la conservation des monuments de l ’architecture à Cracovie. Les effets de l ’incendie de 1850, tragiques pour les monuments de Cracovie, ont provoqué non seulement l’animation du mouvement de conservation relatif à l’architecture; la commission nommée par la Section de l ’Archéologie et des Beaux-Arts de la Société Scientifique de Cracovie s ’est occupée aussi des mobiliers d’art. Dans la deuxième partie de l ’article l ’auteur s ’occupe des évolutions difficiles à découvrir, survenues dans la méthode technique de conservation. Il remarque certaines modifications de la technique de conservation des monuments dans cette époque dans „Skazówka mogąca posłużyć w poszukiwaniach archeologicznych” (’’Indication pouvant être utile dans les recherches archéologiques”), publiée par la Société Scientifique de Cracovie. L’auteur s’occupe également de l ’acquisition de l ’art de conservation. Ensuite il énumère plusieurs noms de conservateurs, peintres, sculpteurs, architectes, presque inconnus jusqu’à présent dans la litté rature professionnelle.
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