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| Language: | English |
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Zenodo
2007
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14807239 |
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- <p>The numerous paintings on the facades of churches, chapels, monuments, castles, town houses and rural houses demonstrate that the custom of decorating exteriors was widespread in Slovenia from the Middle Ages onwards. This segment of open-air artistic heritage is usually badly exposed to harmful natural and human environmental factors and is therefore one of the heritage types most at risk. With a suitably methodologically supported protection strategy it is possible to monitor the extent, state of conservation and risk status of wall paintings and take timely steps to protect them. To this end an experimental project has been designed, within the framework of which a model of an integrated approach to conserving wall paintings has been developed and applied. The result of the collection of data in the field and in historical records is an extensive database on the state of conservation and the risk status of more than 200 medieval wall paintings on the exteriors of more than 130 buildings. Some of the more important data on the condition of this segment of heritage are presented in this paper. The model is sufficiently broad to be applicable to both interior and exterior wall paintings and, with suitable adjustments, to other segments of art heritage. It can be linked to the methodologies of related disciplines (architecture, ethnology, archaeology, etc.) and its results can be incorporated into a corresponding cultural heritage information system.</p>