Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17018/portal.2015.12
Summer Refectory of the Pauline Monastery in Lepoglava – Creation, Destruction and Retrieval
Petar Puhmajer
orcid.org/0000-0003-4630-8863
; Croatian Conservation Institute, Section for Immovable Heritage Research and Documentation, Zagreb, Croatia
Bernarda Ratančić
; Croatian Conservation Institute, Section for Immovable Heritage Research and Documentation, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper aims to analyze the history of the creation and later developments of the summer refectory in the Pauline monastery in Lepoglava. The refectory, or a dining room, was the monastery‘s largest room formed by the construction of the west wing in the 17th century, and lavishly decorated with stucco and wall paintings in the 18th century. When the monastery was turned into a prison in the 19th century, it lead to its long–time degradation, first due to its inappropriate use and then due to the collapse of the vault in the earthquake of 1880. This period also saw the earliest efforts for its preservation, in the sense of documenting, researching and artistic evaluation, which we can see in the works of Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski and Izidor Kršnjavi, and notably in the work of Ferdinand Quiquerez who made an aquarelle drawing of the entire stucco– and wall–painting design of the refectory. Subsequently, the room was badly damaged in World War II when, after the demolition of the upper floors, it was left in the open air. Until the beginnings of the 21st century, the refectory‘s wall decoration was thought to be lost, however, the conservation research has revealed the Pauline benefactors‘ portraits on the walls, painted lunettes and the walled–up grotta with stucco statues. The paper also discusses the research results, as well as the guidelines for the refectory‘s restoration.
Keywords
architecture; wall painting; Lepoglava; Pauline monastery; summer refectory; 18th century; baroque; destruction; renewals; conservation research
Hrčak ID:
149929
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Publication date:
21.12.2015.
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