Conservation
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Baroque Chest of Drawers from Villa Sorkočević
A valuable specimen of a Baroque chest of drawers from Villa Sorkočević on the peninsula of Lapad has been conserved in the Furniture Workshop of the Croatian Conservation Institute. The massive chest of three drawers with discontinuous façade, decorated with inlays of figural and plant ornaments, belongs to a type of chest characteristic of northern Italy in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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As part of the full scale rehabilitation of Veliki Tabor, in 2008 the traces of painted decorations were discovered. Dating from the first half of the 19th century, the decorative paintings with vegetable and tendril motifs found on two walls of a room in the northern wing of the castle, had been coated in layers of white lime. The works to remove subsequent plasters and lime coatings, protect and reconstruct the original murals, were launched in 2009 and are still underway.
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The painting 'St Mary Magdalene, St Blaise, the Archangel Raphael with Tobias and the Donator' was painted by Tiziano Vecellio around 1550. After several repairs and an attack on the painting during 19th and 20th century, this valuable work was properly conserved in the Zagreb workshop of the Croatian Conservation Institute between 2001 and 2006. Today it is exhibited again in the Dominican monastery in Dubrovnik.
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Ludbreg before Ludbreg – Archaeological Excavations of Ancient Iovia
Ancient Iovia (civitas Iovia - Botivo) was built in the early Roman imperial period on the important road route which linked Ptuj (Poetovio) and Osijek (Mursa), two large centres of the province of Pannonia. The spatial organisation of Iovia overlaps with the area of the wider centre of present-day town of Ludbreg. Iovia was probably destroyed during the Gothic incursion in the late 4th century. The archaeological excavations carried out by the Division for Archaeological Heritage of the Croatian Conservation Institute between 2008 and 2011 in the centre of the present-day town of Ludbreg (Somođi Garden) were a continuation of systematic test-pit excavations carried out in the wider town zone by the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb.