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GOTYCKI OŁTARZ Z DOBIEGNIEWA HISTORIA, STAN ZACHOWANIA, KONSERWACJA

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Markowski D.

Ochrona Zabytków

2007

issue 1

23-34

The article discusses the history, construction and state of preservation of a Gothic altar from the church of St. Joseph in Dobiegniew (Lubuskie voivodeship) as well as the conservation-restoration carried out from August to December 2006. The altar is composed of a Gothic core with wings and Late Renaissance predella and crowning. The Gothic part was founded by the von Wedel family for the church in Ostrowite (commune of Dobiegniew). After 1945 the altar was transferred to the parish church of Christ the King in Dobiegniew and then, in the 1980s, to the church of St. Joseph in the same locality. Conducted studies made it possible to ascertain that the polychrome, which at present covers the altar is secondary and had been executed in the course of the altar's thorough renovation in 1928-1930. The state of the altar's preservation called for urgent conservation. The painted layer was crumbling, and the gilded and painted blue background featured extensive blisters. The reasons for this state of things were primarily uncontrolled sudden changes of the humidity and temperature in the church interior. The chief premise of the conservation-restoration was the preservation of the polychrome and gilt fragments originating from 1928-1930. The uncovered parts of the original carvings confirmed the occurrence of only traces of the original polychrome. An essential conservation move was the restoration in the background of the adhesion of the canvas, with the priming ground and the painted layer, to the wooden base. Slightly concentrated binding agents with small viscosity and excellent penetrating properties are regarded as the most effective for work of this sort; they include solutions of glutin glues, whose characteristic features additionally include considerable flexibility. The conservation of the altar involved the use of fish glue by applying the so-called Russian method. The selection of the binder and the methods of its introduction depended on the state of the preservation of the altar and the possibility of repeating the operation. The altar is displayed in conditions of unstable humidity and temperature, a fact, which suggests the assumption, that new loosenings will appear and that it will be necessary to once again conserve the monument by resorting to the earlier applied binder. The conducted work also involved the removal of secondary inscriptions in the lower quarter of the right wing and the altar crowning, thus revealing the original inscriptions in German.

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