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Editor's note
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Editors Notę
The sixth volume of the new series of the “Papers of the National Museum in Kraków,”
which I have the pleasure of presenting to you, is not monographic. The issues addressed
in the papers published in the book and the results of conservation treatments described
here concern the art of different times (from the Middle Ages up until the 20th century)
and different nations (Judaica, Japanese art), encompassing various branches of the visual
arts: sculpture, painting (oil and panel), graphic arts, handicrafts and even fashion.
Recommending all the texts published here to the same degree, we would like to draw
your attention to three of them, to be found at the beginning of the volume. They are con-
cerned with an early Baroąue portable altarpiece (1617), mentioned in the records of the
parish church in Biecz in 1767 and purchased for the collection of the National Museum
in Kraków in 1913. Due to its large size and rare techniąue, this altarpiece, consisting of
232 glass panels, cold decorated on the back of glass with painting and post-gliding tech-
niąues: amelieren and verre eglomise, is uniąue on a European scalę. Because of the condi-
tion of the framework and ornamentation, alarming despite the restoration the altarpiece
underwent in 1936-1938, it needed conservation, which was carried out from 13 De-
cember 2007 to 20 September 2011 in the studios of the National Museum in Kraków.
A special presentation of the restored work, entitled the “The Altarpiece from Biecz -
a Rescued Treasure” (lasting from 16 May 2013 to 18 May 2014), was held in the Gallery of
Decorative Arts of the National Museum in Kraków. The Museum also organised a semi-
nar devoted to its history and conservation.
The result of this work are three papers published at the beginning of this volume of the
“Papers,” which commemorate this important achievement of the Museums conservation
studio and the conservator Anna Pusoska (The Conservation of the Altarpiece from Biecz
in 2007-2011) and - thanks to the texts by Magdalena Laskowska (The Altarpiece from
the Parish Church in Biecz in the Collection ofthe National Museum in Kraków) and Piotr
Oszczanowski (The Altarpiece from Biecz - An Export Product of the Silesian Handicraft
of the Mannerist Period) - bring this “rescued treasure” into the scholarly and research
circulation, hoping to draw your attention to it.
The sixth volume of the new series of the “Papers of the National Museum in Kraków,”
which I have the pleasure of presenting to you, is not monographic. The issues addressed
in the papers published in the book and the results of conservation treatments described
here concern the art of different times (from the Middle Ages up until the 20th century)
and different nations (Judaica, Japanese art), encompassing various branches of the visual
arts: sculpture, painting (oil and panel), graphic arts, handicrafts and even fashion.
Recommending all the texts published here to the same degree, we would like to draw
your attention to three of them, to be found at the beginning of the volume. They are con-
cerned with an early Baroąue portable altarpiece (1617), mentioned in the records of the
parish church in Biecz in 1767 and purchased for the collection of the National Museum
in Kraków in 1913. Due to its large size and rare techniąue, this altarpiece, consisting of
232 glass panels, cold decorated on the back of glass with painting and post-gliding tech-
niąues: amelieren and verre eglomise, is uniąue on a European scalę. Because of the condi-
tion of the framework and ornamentation, alarming despite the restoration the altarpiece
underwent in 1936-1938, it needed conservation, which was carried out from 13 De-
cember 2007 to 20 September 2011 in the studios of the National Museum in Kraków.
A special presentation of the restored work, entitled the “The Altarpiece from Biecz -
a Rescued Treasure” (lasting from 16 May 2013 to 18 May 2014), was held in the Gallery of
Decorative Arts of the National Museum in Kraków. The Museum also organised a semi-
nar devoted to its history and conservation.
The result of this work are three papers published at the beginning of this volume of the
“Papers,” which commemorate this important achievement of the Museums conservation
studio and the conservator Anna Pusoska (The Conservation of the Altarpiece from Biecz
in 2007-2011) and - thanks to the texts by Magdalena Laskowska (The Altarpiece from
the Parish Church in Biecz in the Collection ofthe National Museum in Kraków) and Piotr
Oszczanowski (The Altarpiece from Biecz - An Export Product of the Silesian Handicraft
of the Mannerist Period) - bring this “rescued treasure” into the scholarly and research
circulation, hoping to draw your attention to it.