Restaurering av marmoreringsmåleri Behov av samsyn och kommunikation

Abstract

The purpose with this essay is to describe marbling from a preserving point of view. An introduction is given to marbling through the history, with descriptions of where it has been painted, who the painters where as well as characteristic stylistic features, techniques and materials. To give an insight of how conservation and restoration of marbling can be done, I emanate from a case study, Fillinge Court House outside Linköping, where I have been following the continuing work of conservation and restoration of marbling in three rooms. The wall paintings in the example of immediate consist of distemper marbling and template painting on both wood and plaster. This job involved some different occupational groups. Conservators carried out consolidation of distemper on wood and retouch of smaller losses of paint. A painter mended cracks and damages in the plaster and also reconstructed the painting in these areas and a plasterer replaced damaged and cracked fillings between the logs in one room. The example of immediate is observed from an ethical point of view to explain the motives which determines the proceedings that have been done to preserve the interior paintings and well as the whole building. For this purpose I have emanated from a certain system of value for classification of culture-historical objects, worked out by Dag Myklebust. The fact that marble in general always occur on stationary architecture is of great signification for its prerequisites to be preserved. Since the painting is a part of a building, different occupational groups almost always are involved. This requires good cooperation, communication and comprehension for each other’s professions. In the example of Fillinge Court House this matter became actual when a problem occurred in connection with the plasterer’s work where the result did not really turn out the way that the conservators had expected. Who gets the duty to do a certain job and why in this sort of cooperation project is a significant question that I try to answer in this essay.