Icoanele împărătești din catapeteasma bisericii schitului Berislăvești - studiu de caz
The royal icons from the iconostasis of the church of the Berislăvești hermitage - case study

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the conservation - restoration interventions of the royal icons from the iconostasis of the church of the Berislăvești Monastery, dated in the 19th century. The four icons are part of the Westernizing current of the era and are made in the oil technique, presenting a good technique, both of the support and of the pictorial layer.A good technical execution is generally the premise of good preservation over time. In this case, being used as objects of worship, and not having been properly protected, the icons presented deteriorations typical of this category of objects and the traces of aggressive, unqualified interventions, which have majorly contributed to the appearance of irreversible degradations.Thus, some objects that had the chance of a good preservation in time and would have required only minimal interventions focused more on preventive preservation, have now gone through an extensive restoration process, with a high degree of difficulty in terms of selective interventions to clean the overpaint, the materials that accidentally reached the surface and the different types of deposits.

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