The saving of the wooden church of Urși in a new posture: the inter-disciplinary research, planning and conservation
The saving of the wooden church of Urși in a new posture: the inter-disciplinary research, planning and conservation

Summary/Abstract: Part of the salvation plan of the 60 wooden churches, initiated by the Order of Architects in Romania, the wooden church of Urși, Popești Village, Vâlcea County, is in a new posture: going from the urgent intervention, meant to protect immediately and remove the danger of an imminent collapse to an inter-disciplinary-based research, planning and the operations of consolidation and conservation-restoration of the church architecture together with its artistic components (mural painting, iconostasis and icons, and furniture). The anamnesis, the iconographic and stylistic analysis, the technological analysis about the nature of materials employed in the al fresco and al secco paintings, the initiation of microclimate monitoring, the identification of degradation factors, with a deep analysis of the biodeterioration are the branches of the inter-disciplinary research undertaken at Urși. The execution of the general conservation-restoration project of the church made possible a long-term allocation of the operations through which the church will be rendered to the community. The article closes with a plea for the authorities to get involved in saving a type of monuments representative for the history of Romanian art facing disappearance.

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