Conservation
Conservation
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Lanfranco and Scrivelli – Two Giovannis of the Parish Church in Lastovo
Conservation research have cast new light on issues of authorship of the six panels of the polyptych from the main altar of the Parish Church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian in Lastovo – four of them were attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco and the remaining two to Giovanni Scrivelli. The paintings were later restored at the Croatian Conservation Institute, where injuries were treated, unstable parts were consolidated and traces of previous interventions removed, thus giving the paintings back an appearance of their original splendour.
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Conservation and restoration works on the painting and the decorative frame brought back to life the original appearance of the portrait of the Bishop of Hvar Joakim Maria Pontalti. Kept in the museum of the Bishopric, the portrait is a work of an unknown 18th century Venetian painter. The artwork was seriously endangered by the deformation of the canvas and the flaking of the paint layer.
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The altarpiece of the Madonna with Child and Saints Catherine, Magdalene, Peter, Dominic and Andrew was painted for the main altar of the Dominican church of St. Mary in Bol on the island of Brač. It was painted by the workshop of the great cinquecento master Jacopo Tintoretto. The altarpiece was restored in 2003 at the Croatian Conservation Institute, due to the fact that the painting was damaged, the multiple “improvements” during the 19th and the 20th century rendered the original painter’s expression illegible, and layers of dirt had accumulated.
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The luxuriously adorned and gilded tabernacle from the Church of St. Spirit in Split was subjected to conservation and restoration treatments, due to its poor state, caused by wood degradation and instability of the structural elements and the gilt layer. Works comprised the removal of hardened dirt and subsequently applied overpaints, a consolidation of the loosened and a replacement of the missing parts and the gilding.