Christ Blessing the Children by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Collection of the Wawel Royal Castle, study and conservation

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This interdisciplinary monograph on the panel painting Christ Blessing the Children by Lucas Cranach the Elder documents a nearly decade-long study and conservation program. Acquired by the Castle in 1928, the panel shared the fate of so many works of art in European collections during World War II. Looted by the Nazis, it was restituted in 1947, and finally returned to the Wawel Castle in 1968. In the 1970s conservation  treatment was attempted but never completed. No further attempts were made until 2004. When standard analytical techniques, such as IR and UV photography and x-radiography, among others, did not yield sufficient data to proceed with the conservation, the painting was examined with ultrasound, three-dimensional laser scanning, microscopic fluorescence, thermography, and computer analysis. The book situates the Wawel panel in the context of Cranach’s oeuvre, with emphasis on the iconographic subject of Christ and the children. The volume also addresses the history of the Wawel picture.

Pages: 216
Illustrations: 142
Format: 26 x 28 cm
Cover: softcover
Date of publication: 2012
Publisher: Wawel Royal Castle
ISBN: 978-83-61-866-25-1
Author: Ewa Wilkołć
Translation: Sabina Potaczek-Jasionowicz, Aneta Zębala 

Ewa Wiłkojć