Course: Basics of conservation and restoration of monuments

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Course title Basics of conservation and restoration of monuments
Course code KHI/V055
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Honys Vít, PhDr.
Course content
1) Restoration and conservation carried out by Czech heritage care. Heritage care specialist and his/her cooperation with the restorer, restoration documentation, ethical codes of restorers and conservators. 2) Basic causes of damage to stone artifacts, their restoration research. 3) Consolidation, surface treatment of stone as opposed to cleaning, modeling accessories, copies and casts, finishing treatment. 4) Stucco, other formable materials, sgraffito conservation and restoration. 5) Wall paintings and causes of their damage Basic painting techniques, causes and character of damage, stabilization of plasters, fixation of a colour layer, restoration survey. 6) Restoration of murals - exposures of murals, superposition of multiple layers of paint, different approaches to presentations and retouches of murals. 7) Wood and causes of its degradation. Structure of wood, effects of changes in temperature, humidity, biological pests. 8) Wood conservation. Retrospective overview of historical and current insecticidal and fungicidal agents and methods of destruction of wood decaying fungi and insects, wood petrification. 9) Restoration of polychrome wooden works of art and paintings on a wooden base, surveys and restoration interpretation. 10) Degradation and conservation of metals and their alloys. 11) Stained glass, vitraje, restoration and care. 12) Preventive care of collection items, depository regime. 13) Field excursions.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Introduction into the issue of conservation and restoration process in basic types of monuments of artistic and craft character. Main principles of preventive conservation with regard to the nature of common materials. The seminar part focuses on examples of a role of a conservationist in the restoration process (historical, iconographic background); presentation of elementary resources and literature. If possible, final introduction to restoration action in a field.
A graduate has elementary knowledge and is partially capable of independent use of written and documentary material serving as supporting material for extension of information about damaged work. (iconographic manuals, the most important written sources, restoration reports, documentation photos, restoration laboratory surveys, etc.). He/she will get an idea of the nature of conservation - restoration intervention and preventive care. He / she can use this information to describe and provide characteristics of the state of the most commonly occurring works of art or architecture.
Prerequisites
History of Fine Arts I, II Also suitable for: Monument care 0444 In addition to elementary knowledge of history of art and architecture also elementary knowledge of German and Latin, including experiences from modern paleography.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Besides attendance is required participation in seminar activities such as a discussion and a paper or presentation on a selected topic on particular issue.
Recommended literature
  • Organokřemičitany v české památkové praxi. Sborník z konference Padesát let používání organokřemičitanů na území České republiky (usp. P. Gláser, V.Nejedlý). Praha, 2008.
  • Bohuslav SLÁNSKÝ. Technika malby I, Technika malby II. Praha, 1955.
  • Césare BRANDI. Teorie restaurování. Kutná Hora, 2000.
  • Ivana KOPECKÁ a kol. Preventivní péče o historické objekty a sbírky v nich uložené. Praha, 2002.
  • Ivana KOPECKÁ-Vratislav NEJEDLÝ. Průzkum historických materiálů. Praha, 2005.
  • Kolektiv. Základy muzejní konzervace. Brno, 1989.
  • Miloš GAVENDA. Štukatérství. Praha, 2010.
  • Roman KUBIČKA-Jiří ZELINGER. Výkladový slovník malířství, grafika, restaurátorství. Praha, 2004.
  • Salvador Muňoz VIŇAS. Současná teorie konzervování. Pardubice, 2015.
  • Veronika K. WANKOVÁ-Renata TIŠLOVÁ-Peter MAJOROŠ-Vojtěch KRAJÍČEK. Technologické poznatky ke štukové výzdobě Císařského pokoje v Bučovicích, in: Zprávy památkové péče 80,č. 3-4, s. 330-343. 2020.


Study plans that include the course
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