Cercetarea stratigrafică, un demers între recuperarea autenticităţii și conservarea intervenţiilor istorice Statuile Domului Romano-Catolic din Timișoara
Stratigraphy Research, an Approach between the Recovery of Authenticity and the Conservation of Historical Interventions. The Statues of the Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Timişoara

Summary/Abstract: The following paper encases a short presentation of the conservation research regarding the overlayers of gilded polychrome statues, from the altars of the Roman-Catholic Dome in Timișoara. In the context of the recent conservation-restoration project for the rehabilitation of the Dome, the subject of this paper shows the challenges faced during the conservation and restoration works of the gilded sculptural ensembles. The human-size sculptures were covered over time with many gilded layers. The first phase of the research focused on the identification of the numbers of layers overlapping the original one, but the state of the conservation of the objects and also the principles guiding the preliminary research, didn’t provide much insight on the stratigraphy of the gilded polychromy. Thus, the preliminary results were insufficient. During the actual conservation interventions, extensive research was done, after eliminating the visible improper gilded layers, and showed a more complex structure. The challenge was to identify a correct method for the preservation of the historical interventions and finding a convenient and coherent method of aesthetical presentation of the gilded statues.

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