Yearly Archives: 2017

TESTING AND TRIAL LASER CLEANING OF A POLYCHROMED STONE SCULPTURE FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE POZNAŃ NATIONAL MUSEUM (MNP)

Toruń, November 2017 The collection of MNP includes a medieval stone sculpture representing the head of an unidentified holy woman. It was purchased by Izabella Czartoryska for her private collection. (more…)...

NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF PAINTING HEAD OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST ON A PLATTER

Toruń, October-November 2017 Our lab was entrusted with a project to carry out tests on a painting made on a wooden panel, representing the Head of St. John the Baptist on a Platter, attributed to an artist from the circle of Albrecht Bouts, son of Dirk Bouts, a Flemish painter (15th c.). (more…)...

ICOMOS POLAND SUMMER SCHOOL

Toruń, July 13, 2017 We had to the pleasure and honor to be invited by ICOMOS Poland to present two of our completed projects in Toruń, i.e. the Old Town Hall and the Cathedral of Ss. Johns, as part of its Summer School program. (more…)...

WORKSHOP DEDICATED TO NEW CONSOLIDATION METHODS FOR LIME-BOUND MATERIALS

Toruń-Skępe, July 20-21, 2017 The workshop was attended by our colleagues, mural painting conservators, from Lithuania and was held both in the lab and in the field, i.e. St. Anne's Chapel at the Skępe Sanctuary of St. Mary, Mother of God, whose mural paintings were, and still are, being treated. (more…)...