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| Julia Knollmayr: | Passion and Saints (Secco, ca. 1600) in the cloister of the Mattighofen collegiate monastery. Documentation, investigation and pilot work | back |
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| Abstract: | This work documents the methodological development of a preservation and restoration concept for the wall paintings in the cloister of the collegiate monastery Mattighofen (Upper Austria). The impressive images of saints and figures and the stations of the cross in lime-based fresco-secco on the wall and connected vault originate in 1600 and can be considered a demonstration of the Counter-Reformation in a group of comparable representations from the Renaissance in present-day Upper and Lower Bavaria. In 2011, water damage above the vault of the cloister caused a loss of part of the historical layer of painting, and subsequently made necessary the assessment of the damage and development of a conservation and restoration concept. The focus of this work is primarily concerned with two main types of damage: moisture penetration and partial detachment of the paint-bearing layer of whitewash in two bays of the vault as a result of the water damage, and a large-scale detachment of the layers of whitewash in all parts covered with paintings. As part of this work, methods were tested to remedy and stabilize the damaged areas in the vault and to reconnect the detached layers of whitewash with each other. Other types of damage detected in the vault are remedied and suggestions for preventive conservational measures are added to the practical measures taken. Subsequent to the conservational measures, a suggestion for the visual presentation that is based on the current composition of the object and the results of a previous restoration is made and is intended to maintain the comprehensibility and a non-fragmented appearance of the paintings. The set of measures presented is based on the results of a visual and material-technological survey of the object and the damage to it, and the formulation of a restoration goal that followed from the survey. |
| Keywords: | wall paintings, lime-based fresco-secco, water damage, flaking paint |
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