Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ebert, Bettina

Titel

Biographies carved in wood: Turning points in the lives of two medieval Virgin sculptures

Ist Teil von

• Journal of material culture, 2019-06, Vol.24 (2), p.144-175

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• By comparing two medieval polychrome sculptures of a combined enthroned Virgin and nativity scene, important and hitherto unnoticed stages in their object biographies can be described. Provenance and attribution are addressed by virtue of stylistic and material comparisons, and the sculptures’ wider iconographic, social, historical and spatial contexts are outlined. The article demonstrates how conservation science investigations feed into knowledge regarding the sculptures’ material composition, use, transformation and treatment histories. Thus, the applicability of the conservator’s approach to examining objects and shedding light on wider historical contexts is outlined by virtue of this case study.