Conservation and Restoration of Frames with Stucco Mastic Decor
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https://doi.org/10.47451/her2020-08-002Keywords:
conservation, restoration, objects of applied art, olive decor, frameAbstract
The relevance of the chosen topic is that picture frames are valuable cultural objects. The production of artistic baguette frames with mastic decoration, gilding, imitation gilding and other decorative coatings has a long tradition and developed production technology. The study of frames allows you to get valuable information about the artistic styles of frames, about the technology of their production, to develop acceptable methods of restoration, which many frames need. The author reveals the ways and methods of conservation and restoration of a particular frame with imitation gilding to a painting from a private collection. It describes the state of preservation of the object before restoration and determines the sequence of methods for eliminating defects in the frame to give it an expositional appearance, and then describes the processes of working on the frame. The author concludes that the frame and the painting are separate works of art and craft, but they are created for each other. The picture, of course, takes precedence, the frame plays a secondary role, but they interact and complement each other.
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