Review article
https://doi.org/10.21857/y6zolb87gm
PAINTED REAR PANEL OF A CARRIAGE, ŠARAGA, FROM THE LEITNER CASTLE IN JALKOVEC
Ljerka Šimunić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5090-5885
; Gradski muzej Varaždin
Tomislav Sikinger
; Restauratorski odjel Ludbreg
Abstract
The text consists of two parts: the first one analysing the item called šaraga
in the holdings of the Department of Culture and History of the Varaždin City
Museum, and providing insight into its initial owners, members of the aristocratic
family of Leitner, and the second one giving a comprehensive description of
the complex restoration and conservation works conducted by the experts of
the Restoration Department in Ludbreg within the Croatian Conservation Institute
in Zagreb.
In the collection of the Varaždin City Museum, an interesting, but severely
damaged object was found, on which no museum records were detected. The
research confirmed that the item was of significant artistic and cultural value
and that it represented a part of a carriage in the former ownership of the Leitner
family from Varaždin. Owing to the data collected and the evaluation of the
item, it was enlisted in the conservation program of the Croatian Conservation
Institute.
In the Restoration Department in Ludbreg, in the period from 2015 to 2016,
conservation and restoration work was performed on the item, during which original
painting and paint stratigraphy were discovered. The cause of separation of
the boards comprising the central painted panel was disovered. Industrial nails
causing the separation were removed, and will be replaced with flexible brass
nails, hence preventing future damage. Upon finishing the restoration work, the
item will be included into the permanent exhibition of the Department of Culture
and History in the Old Town.
Keywords
Jalkovec; Leitner family; carriage; šaraga; Old Testament story of Joseph; microphotography; stratigraphy; tanned leather; retouching with Gum arabic; movable brass nail.
Hrčak ID:
231087
URI
Publication date:
24.12.2019.
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