Gothic canvas painting: an example of technology responding to requirments of the liturgy

0441802 - ÚACH 2015 RIV IT eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Hradilová, J. - Hradil, David
Gothic canvas painting: an example of technology responding to requirments of the liturgy.
ESRARC 2014 : 6th european symposium on religious art, restoration & conservation : proceeding book. Firenze: Nardini editore, 2014, s. 116-119. ISBN 9788840443652.
[European Symposium on Religious Art, Restoration and Conservation /6./. Florence (IT), 09.06.2014-11.06.2014]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA14-22984S
Keywords : Gothic canvas painting * Tüchleinmalerei * imprimitura * materials research
Subject RIV: CA - Inorganic Chemistry

Materials and technological characteristics of large-scale canvas painting The Assumption from White Mountain (around 1450), National Gallery in Prague, have been described with the aim to determine the origin of the artwork. Application of traditional medieaval pigments, execution only the imprimitura instead of conventional ground layer and the shape and distribution of cracks comfi rmed fi nally that the painting is original, not transferred, not a copy, and was probably used as a portable painting within Christian liturgy. The simplifi ed technology of making was responding (as in other similar cases) to initially intended temporary usage of these paintings as fasting canvases, flags in liturgical processions, imitation of tapestries etc., and lead to generally worst state of their preservation with respect to more frequent wooden panels.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0244781