Restoration of the frescoes in Novgorod
 

In Novgorod, the restorers found 500 fragments of frescoes XIV-XV centuries
Moscow. September 2. INTERFAX.RU - In place of the destroyed church of the Archangel Michael in Novgorod restorers found 500 fragments of ancient frescoes.

As told to "Interfax" the head of operations director of "Scientific Restoration Workshop" Fresco "Tamara Anisimova, and now experts are reviewing rubble of the temple that was blown up during the Great Patriotic War.

Now all the pieces are in the studio, restorers to clean them. "We will try to gather the fragments of the whole fresco. What we have yet to find, not known, but in general, the church was completely painted, and he remained in good condition before the war," she said.

St. Michael Church was built in Novgorod in 1355, his painting was carried out at the end of XIV century - the beginning of XV century. During the war it was completely destroyed.

http://www.interfax.ru/culture/news.asp?id=98582

professionals have begun to restore the frescoes have been lost during the war
Yuri Levikov
 
Specialists scientific Restoration Workshop "Fresco" began studying destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, the Church of the Archangel Michael in a frying pan 14 th century, located in the vicinity of Novgorod.

Even last year Skovorodsky hill looked running to start the study had to cut the bushes and restore order. We have continued to work - experts are clearing the temple walls of the Archangel Michael from the outside. Among the first finds of the window grilles - this is allowed to judge the height and width of the openings. Then it was discovered, and fragments of frescoes, apparently, a powerful explosion knocked paintings off the walls and partially thrown outside the church.

On the plates with restorers about 500 fragments skovorodskoy painting, until they cleaned - found 15 are joined to each other parts. And this is - just a beginning. In the next 2 seasons specialists hope to extract from the land all the fragments of old plaster and re-lay 300 square meter image 14 - early 15 centuries.

Continue to work and to restore fresco of the Assumption Church in Volotovo field. This year has brought new successes - on the walls of the church restored several ancient tracks. Collect a huge mosaic - continues.

Which songs will take place in the Church of the Assumption next summer - so far hard to say. To date, the best is the selection of fragments of frescoes from the altar of the temple.

02.09.2009 14:29

http://novgorod.rfn.ru/rnews.html?id=27571&cid=7

Restoration of the frescoes in the monastery Iver
   
     Published: 12.09.08
Currently, the main temple Iverskogo Monastery - the Assumption Cathedral - are large and restoration work. Art restorers restoring mural there. Inside the temple the whole surrounded by forests. Huge number of decking from the bottom up and the stairs leading to the very top under the central dome, restorers can work virtually anywhere in the cathedral.
Murals of the temple requires restoration. Several decades ago, under the arches of the imposing size of the building work was in progress to restore the picturesque layer, but to this day he arrived in poor condition. There are places where he showered at all, and looking at them, one can only guess that was shown once the old masters, painted the cathedral. In some places, despite the abundance of cracks, painting remains, judging by their appearance, in the not-so poor condition. Apparent destruction picturesque layer spared neither angels nor saints, neither Virgin nor Christ. Peering closely, one can see many paintings on biblical subjects: such as "washing of the feet", "Descent from the Cross," "Entombment," and others. This is something that many times to write not only masters of the temple painting, but artists such as Veronese, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and other paintings are stored in the largest museums in the world.

Restoration work continues every day from morning during the opening of the cathedral, and almost before nightfall. In the temple work in shifts restoration artists from Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow. Told one of them, Mikhail Baldin, who works here at Valdai, from Nizhny Novgorod Company LLC "Byzantium". He and his colleagues Batanova Lyubov and Yevgeny Loginov, with whom he worked continuously for many years, before recovering the painting in the churches of the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and other regions of central Russia, many of whom today are not burdened with a negative attitude toward the church, gave another birth. Here, they say, painting is best preserved in the upper part restored by the building. Perhaps because of the fact that there was less moisture.

All reconstruction work going down. First, thoroughly washed with artists painting, making it clear for myself, what exactly should be restored. Then reinforce the existing paint layer special solutions to the adhesive agent. Then shpaklyuyut those places that crumbled. And only after that a new write ruined gentleman, whose name is Time.

Following the consolidation and restoration of the cathedral oil painting restorers will cover special varnish. This is to some extent, keep it from moisture, candle soot and dust. Then after many years it can be refreshing, just cleaned.

Restoration after preliminary training, covering work in the sanctuary of the temple, the installation of modern forests of iron load-bearing structures, began several weeks ago and will last for many months.

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Several interesting, in my opinion, references to materials on the history and technology of restoration of the frescoes (and not only):

The site contains collection of icons, mosaics, frescoes, miniatures, draw and transfers ordered by the iconography (the image of the Savior, the Virgin Mary and various saints, the Bible and Gospels, etc.), icon painters, schools, location. Separately considered the most famous Deesis and holidays ranks. In the "Library" project to collect sets of thematic publications, and discussion of issues related to the Orthodox art, visitors can conduct the forum.
http://www.icon-art.info/index.php?lng=ru

Information portal Hramdekor "Everyone who is engaged in church art"
http://hramdecor.ru/

Site dedicated to the art of restoration. This is an informational field to find and solve many problems in the restoration, the interaction of professionals and interested users in the community of restorers.
http://www.art-con.ru/node/64

And you are there on the forum prisutstvuete?
There interesting?

Unfortunately, no. We must somehow get acquainted with this forum more closely. I'm sure it's interesting.

Very. But I feel better, I'm friends with several top actors, but with some simple sign.

Curious! Tell that to a forum? What people? I recently discovered for myself this resource.

The largest and most serious Russian-language resource on icons. Attribution, large section of professional restorers of icons, icon painters, section mednolitoy plastics, etc.
People are different, but there are dozens, perhaps the strongest specialists very high level of knowledge and great experience.
  (I avoid superlatives intentionally, so as not to scare novices.)
There are private (must separately subscribe to it during registration or later) the commercial section, which is not visible to guests and non-signing him to participants.
Basically, of course, the most popular section, icons, icons and iconography, and it sub-attribution and discussion of icons and works of religious art.
Yes you can go right now and even curiosity. There is nothing.

Thanks for the interesting information!