Konserwacja rokokowych relikwiarzy skrzynkowych z kościoła przyklasztornego w Kartuzach

• Authors: Krupska Aleksandra

Title variants

EN

The Conservation of Rococo Box Reliquaries in the Cloister Church in Kartuzy

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The conservation of a series of eight gilt box reliquaries in the cloister church in Kartuzy encompassed ornamental cardboard — exterior and the outfitting of their interiors. These objects constitute an extremely interesting example of the Rococo gilding workshop. All, with a single exception, possess a technical — technological construction based on a similar principle. The exterior is composed of three basic elements: a) a cardboard frame about 0 .5-0.7 cm thick, with gilt polychromy and a rocaille embossed ornament; b) a wooden supporting construction of the frames, closely connected with the face; c) a box for reliquaries. Reliquary no. 8 is a plaster cast of its predecessor (no. 7), whose shape and type of ornament differs from the other examples. The state of the preservation of particular reliquaries differs but due to a similar technical and technological construction, the damage suffered by all was rather similar. The faces of the objects were covered by thick layers of repainting. The wooden construction was weakened, numerous decorative elements were missing, and the wood bore traces o f insects. The almost uniform type of damage made it possible to prepare a complex conservation programme. Team work also contributed to a more effective course of the necessary operations, which involved a disinsection of all the reliquaries, the impregnation of the weaker wooden elements, a supplementation of missing supporting and decorative elements, the removal of repainting ,and retouching the surfaces of the original polychromy. The intention o f all these undertakings was to restore aesthetic values and guarantee the functional character of the objects. Although the above mentioned operations belong to routine work, they required imagination and efficiency on the part of the artisans. The workshop origin of the reliquaries from Kartuzy remains unknown, and its determination would prove to be extremely difficult without special, more extensive studies. Quite possibly, the objects in question constitute a legacy of those popponiers whose activity in the mid-eighteenth century in France was extremely highly assessed and who produced assorted decorative objects from cardboard or papier mache.

Keywords

PL

relikwiarze skrzynkowe; kościół w Kartuzach; relikwiarz; konserwacja; polichromia

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1997
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 195-205

Dates

published

1997

Contributors

author

Krupska Aleksandra

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Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247