Recovery of a vandalized canvas painting our Lady of the Rosary from Vrlika (Croatia)

  • Sandra Sustic Hrvatski restauratorski zavod
  • Ivan Rezic Franciscan monastery of Fr. Ante Antić Put iza nove bolnice 10 C, 21000 Split, Croatia
  • Mario Cvetkovic he Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split. Ruđera Boškovića 32, 21 000, Split, Croatia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37558/gec.v18i1.828
Palabras clave: vandalismo de arte, arte dañado por la guerra, reconstrucción, imagen de culto, valor social, arte religioso, pintura

Resumen

Este estudio está relacionado con el gran proyecto de recuperación de una pintura al óleo sobre lienzo del siglo XVIII que representa a Nuestra Señora del Rosario, la patrona de la comunidad parroquial de Vrlika y sus alrededores. Durante la Guerra de Independencia de Croacia en 1992 fue retirado del altar principal y destrozado por las unidades paramilitares. Esto dio lugar a la terminación de una tradición centenaria de fiestas anuales en Vrlika en las que la pintura era exhibida públicamente y llevada por los ciudadanos. Tiendo por base los materiales visuales disponibles: una fotografía antigua en blanco y negro de alta resolución y la de color de baja resolución, respetuosamente, utilizando el algoritmo de coloración por ordenador, y confiando también en un análisis visual detallado de la capa de pintura original, se llevó a cabo una reconstrucción importante en 2017. Esta investigación ha demostrado que la recuperación de las obras de arte con pérdidas dramáticas es un fenómeno social extremadamente complejo, difícil de caracterizar por cualquier factor general o en base a cualquier perspectiva general.

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Biografía del autor/a

Sandra Sustic, Hrvatski restauratorski zavod

Sandra Sustic has a degree in conservation-restoration of easel paintings and polychrome wood at the Arts Academy of the University of Split (UMAS) in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Art History (Department for Protection of Cultural heritage) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia in 2016. Presently, she is head of Šibenik Department for Conservation of the Croatian Conservation Institute, and associate lecturer at UMAS (Department for conservation-restoration). Her fields of research are theoretical and practical aspects of retouching paintings, technical art history, historically informed reconstructions of paintings and history of conservation practice.

Ivan Rezic, Franciscan monastery of Fr. Ante Antić Put iza nove bolnice 10 C, 21000 Split, Croatia

van Rezic is a Franciscan monk, priest and a writer. He graduated at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split in 2009. From the academic year 2011/2012 he attended postgraduate studies at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. In 2015 he gained Master’s Degree in theology with a specialization in spirituality and was the recipient of the Best Student of the Year award. He is currently at the final stage of finishing his PhD at the same University. Since June 2018 he was the educator of Franciscan novices and a lecturer of Franciscan spirituality at the island of Visovac (Croatia). In addition to the activities closely related to the invitation of monks and priests, he published two poetry collections and initiated conservation projects of several sacral artefacts, among which was the canvas painting Our Lady of the Rosary from Vrlika (Croatia).

Mario Cvetkovic, he Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split. Ruđera Boškovića 32, 21 000, Split, Croatia

Mario Cvetkovic received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Split, Croatia in 2005. In 2009 he obtained M.Phil degree from the Wessex Institute of Technology, University of Wales, UK. In December 2013 he received Ph.D. from University of Split, Croatia, for the thesis entitled “Method for Electromagnetic Thermal Dosimetry of the Human Brain Exposed to High Frequency Fields”. He is assistant professor at the Faculty of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and naval architecture (FESB), University of Split. His research interests are numerical modelling including finite element and moment methods, computational bioelectromagnetics and heat transfer related phenomena.

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2020-12-10
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Sustic, S., Rezic, I., & Cvetkovic, M. (2020). Recovery of a vandalized canvas painting our Lady of the Rosary from Vrlika (Croatia). Ge-Conservacion, 18, 247-257. https://doi.org/10.37558/gec.v18i1.828
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