Academic thesis
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The subject of this Master-Thesis is a mural painting with the depiction of “Tree of Jesse” located in Mengstraße 60, a town house in the historic centre of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. The mural painting is executed in fresco-secco, covering two older paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries and can be dated at around 1500-1510. It shows a high similarity to etchings by Israhel van Meckenem (1440-1503). By means of macro- and microscopic inspections, layer cross-section polish, pigment- and binder-analysis, new findings about the present materials and the paint-technological structure could be gathered. Damages in the painting were identified and mapped, facilitating considerations about the causes for the damage. Salt analyses in height and depth profile as well as climatic measurements on the wall surface and in the room show that the high amount of salts plus structural-physical and climatic hydration and dehydration are the main causes for degradation. Based on these findings, an adequate conservation- and restoration-concept has been developed, in which the preventive measures on the inner and outer wall-surface, such as a ventilation trench with drainage and the optimisation of the enclosure, will prove to be indispensable for further conservation and restoration work.
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- academic institution: FH Erfurt
- kind of theses: Masterarbeit
- date: 2017
- Language: German
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