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Disliked – improved – surviving. Seventeenth-century altars in Inland Croatia, their polychromy and its role in their reception

We have used the examples of six altars from Varaždin, Gornji Tkalec, Svetice, Vukovoj, Brinje and Martinščina to analyse the stylistic features of the art of polychromy dominant in inland Croatia between the early 17th century and 1680. The altars, and especially their polychromy, are nowadays attractive because of their peculiar solutions, extravagance and numerous details, some of which are unusual and bizarre. But, for the same reasons, they were held in rather low esteem during the 18th, and especially during the 19th, century. The majority of such altars were replaced by new ones in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the rest of them were repolychromed in a manner which suppressed their painting component, and emphasized the sculptural creative component. The conservation explorations and work on the altars listed has provided us with an insight into the technology, modelling and remodelling of the polychromy, while the research of written sources has revealed the original intentions of people who ordered the altars and their reception in later periods.

polychromy; repolychromy; reception; restoration; conservation; altar; Croatia

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