Restoration of selected painted scenes on the vault of st. Wenceslas’ chapel In the church of the assumption of st. Virgin Mary in Klokoty

Abstract

The article presents the process of restoration of two wall paintings from the beginning of the 18th century, which are situated on the vault and the victory arch, as well as the inscriptions associated with them in St. Wenceslas’ Chapel of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Klokoty near Tábor. The selected parts with the motifs of St. Wenceslas sowing, harvesting and threshing grain and Flogging of Christ are part of the wall painting on the ceiling which includes seven scenes form the life of St. Wenceslas. Other seven paintings on the victory arch depict The Passion of the Christ Cycle, a part of a larger iconographic concept devoted to St. Mary carried out within the whole area of the church. The paper includes basic information about the artwork, the description of the condition before and after the restoration treatment, the plan of restoration works as well as the individual steps of the restoration process, which was designed individually for each artwork.