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Folk sacral reverse glass paintings (Hinterglasmalerei) from the Painting Collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. Preventive, digital and interpretative analysis of the material – presentation of practical experience

Gordana Viljetić orcid id orcid.org/0009-0007-7423-8862 ; Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb


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Abstract

The paper is based on direct experience acquired in the professional processing of folk sacral reverse glass paintings in the Painting Collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. The author presents an interdisciplinary survey of preventive material protection, documentation tasks and digital material processing by using the M++ computer program. These provide the opportunity for the interpretation of sacral paintings from the basic ethnological (cultural-anthropological) view within the scope of folk piety, i.e., belief in patron saints. In terms of potential presentation the paper highlights the need to place the museum exhibit in a definite context (that is, provide the story behind the object), emphasised by recent theory as an important task of state-of-the-art museum curators.

Keywords

Ethnographic Museum (Zagreb); glass paintings; sacral art; museum collections; museum material digitalisation

Hrčak ID:

133483

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/133483

Publication date:

29.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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