Conservation, Restoration, Reconstruction and Presentation of Fragments of Roman Wall Paintings From the Archaeological Site Mediana, Niš
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Authors: Vladimir Pajić, MA, Marina Tekić, MA, Miša Jovanović, MA, and Tijana Lekić, MA
Mentors: Professor Radomir Samardzic, MSc
Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade (Serbia)
Study programme: Conservation and Restoration
Specialization: Wall paintings and mosaics (1st year of Master's programme)
Abstract
The project of conservation, restoration, reconstruction and display of fragments of wall paintings from the Roman period, found at the site of Mediana (Niš), was realized through team work of four students of the Master’s program at the Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade, the National Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments and the Faculty of Physical Chemistry. Over a relatively short period of time several thousand wall painting fragments, which were close to total degradation, were conserved, restored and put together. Six reconstructed items were returned to the site. Prior to any conservation work being carried out, a series of technical analyses were conducted, in order to gain insight into the Roman painting techniques. The complete pigment palette of the Roman painters in Maesia and Dacia was thus reconstructed, based on the available sources and the results of the analysis carried out within the framework of the project. The micro-Raman and XRF spectroscopy of ten samples of the colored layer proved the representative character of the villa with a peristyle to which the paintings belonged, supporting the earlier scientific research according which its builder was Constantine the Great.
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Short biographies
VLADIMIR PAJIĆ was born in 1989. He has graduated from the Master’s program of the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2013, with the master’s thesis "Conservation, restoration, reconstruction and presentation of the fragments of the Roman wall paintings from Mediana, near Niš". His second degree is in restoration of paintings and paper, which he gained in 2012. In 2008 he finished High School of Arts (conservation and restoration) in Kraljevo. In the period 2011-2014 he worked for the National Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments, and in 2014-2015 for the Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade.
MARINA TEKIĆ was born in 1989. She gained a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2013, with the thesis "Conservation, restoration, reconstruction and presentation of the fragments of the Roman wall paintings from Mediana near Niš". Her first degree was in conservation and restoration of paintings and paper, in 2012. She finished Skola za dizajn, design of packages, in 2008. She worked for the Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments of Macedonia in 2014, and for the Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade, in the period 2014-2015.
TIJANA LEKIĆ was born in 1989. In 2013 she graduated from the Master’s programme at the Faculty of Applied Arts with the thesis "Conservation, restoration, reconstruction and presentation of fragments of the Roman wall paintings from Mediana near Niš". Her first degree was in conservation and restoration of paintings and paper, in 2012. She finished the IV Beogradska gymnasium (social studies and languages department) in 2008. In the period 2014-2015 she was engaged by the Historical Museum of Serbia. In 2015 she worked at the Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade.
MIŠA JOVANOVIĆ was born in 1989. He graduated from the Master’s programme at the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2013, with the thesis "Conservation, restoration, reconstruction and presentation of fragments of the Roman wall paintings from Mediana near Niš". His first degree was in conservation and restoration of paintings and paper, in 2012. He finished Bora Stankovic gymnasium in Niš (social studies and languages department), in 2008. In 2011 and 2015 he worked for the National Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments. In 2014 he was engaged by the Zaječar National Museum, and in 2012 by the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Niš.
