Original scientific paper
Conservation and restoration interventions on the ciborium from St. Martha’s Church at Bijaći
Mladen Matijaca
; Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The present article describes the process of the conservation and restoration treatment of the four-sided ciborium from the Church of St. Martha in Bijaći. The intervention was undertaken in response to the deterioration of the earlier reconstruction and the need to incorporate a recently acquired as well as several subsequently identified original fragments into the ciborium. The text outlines the full course of the conservation-restoration process, i.e. from the removal of the former reconstruction
and the consolidation of the stone material, through the replacement of the original substructure with a new one, to the incorporation of newly identified fragments from the Museum’s lapidarium. A distinctive feature of this intervention is the conservative approach adopted for the restoration of the arched panels forming the canopy of the ciborium, whereby the
appearance established in the first reconstruction of 1936 was preserved to the greatest possible extent.
Keywords
conservation; restoration; ciborium; St. Martha; Bijaći
Hrčak ID:
353336
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2025.
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