Pavol Sás↓
Gallery
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The Last Judgement, Gothic wooden panel, condition after the removal of overpainting and other degraded layers, painting with the motif of a host of sinners found under the oil layer
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The Last Judgement, Gothic wooden panel, condition before restoration, with graphic highlights of the defects (red cracks in the panel, yellow-green defects reaching as deep as to the wooden support)
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The Last Judgement, Gothic wooden panel, approximately in the center, a horizontal band of oil overpainting (clouds)
Studies
| 2017–2020 | Restoration of Painted Artworks, AVU (Adam Pokorný) |
| 2019 | Opificio delle pietre dure, Florence |
| 2014–2017 | Restoration of Painted Artworks, AVU (Karel Stretti) |
About the work
In the last year of his studies, Pavol Sás restored a polychromed sculpture and, with his colleague, a large-dimensional altarpiece panel with The Last Judgement. The intervention in the latter case consisted of an exigent removal of the surface yolk overpainting, the glue consolidation, and the layers of degraded varnish with impurities. The most exacting part of the process was removing the secondary oil overpainting, which resulted in a completely different character of the work. The theoretical section of the diploma pursues multispectral imaging methods in the field of non-invasive research. Sás produced an array of pattern books of pigments found on various supports with various binding agents and documented them via multispectral photographs.