Master´s Thesis describes and analyses seven beehive panels of the Beekeeping Museum Radovljica. The theoretical part introduces beehive panels and their place in hive and apiary as well as space and time contingency and reasons for historical collecting of painted beehives. The information about painting technologies has a prominent place; we describe historical preparation of wooden supports, transfers of drawing and selection of used pigments and binders thus describing the technical aspect of painting. We conducted further research in the Department for natural sciences of Restoration centre of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia. We have had research samples of paint layers taken from all seven beehive panels. We have used optical microscopy, raman microspectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy. By means of analyses, sequences of the paint layers, pigments, fillers and binders used, have been identified. The results are critically compared with the older sources about painting techniques of painted beehives. The thesis also describes conservation- restoration procedures done between 2015 and 2017 on the beehive panel of dr. Ivan Oražen. We have carried out the following conservation-restoration procedures: removal of the varnish, consolidation of paint layers, retouching, varnishing, finalization of the retouching and final varnishing. Through survey addressed to Slovene museums we obtained information about conservation-restoration practices of painted beehive panels.
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