The subject of the thesis is the fragment of the wall painting, which was detached from the walls of the National Gallery and restored in the Restoration Center’s Painting and Mosaics Department’s workshop. National Gallery’s entire reconstruction also included the fragment, which was part of the conservation-restoration project of the National Gallery itself. Following the completion of the galleries conservation and restoration works, the gallery was again opened for visitors in 2018, for the celebration the 100th anniversary of the foundation.
The fragment of the wall painting I'm dealing with was in the reception room at the main entrance of the National Gallery. The fragment was part of a larger wall painting decoration that adorned this room. The staff of the Restoration Center in Ljubljana decided to secure, take down and transfer fragments in the room and take them to the workshops of the department for wall paintings and mosaics of the above-mentioned center.
Electric cable which passed approximately in the middle was removed from the wall painting, subsequently the image was divided into two approximately equal parts, which were removed from the wall and transferred to the workshop of the Restoration Center. The conservation-restoration of the fragment of the wall paintings has thus become the subject of a project, in which I participated as well. The staff of the Restoration Center started the process of removing the fragments from the original support, at which point I took over and continued the conservation-restoration. Afterwards the staff finished the restauration with a complete retouch of the fragment.
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