The Restoration Notebooks 2025 (XIV)

Abstract

The fourteenth issue of The Restoration Notebooks brings together 13 articles summarizing the contributions of 18 specialists, including conservator-restorers, architects, art historians, urban planners, and engineers. Each article addresses specific aspects related to monitoring or presents case studies focused on specific conservation-restoration interventions, materials’ research, and detailed analyses of works of art, all contributing to the improved preservation of tangible cultural heritage.

Monitoring and maintenance activities can, to a certain extent, also be carried out by monument owners or administrators, whose involvement is essential. Maintenance costs are significantly lower than those associated with extensive restoration interventions, while degradation occurring over time may lead to the irreversible loss of original material.

Table of Contents:

• Unlisted heritage – historical urbanism as a tool for identifying and monitoring, Ramona Ungureanu, Alina Marinescu (pp. 10-33)

• The city within the citadel: maintenance and revitalization of the Alba Carolina Citadel, Laura Sabău-Tătar, Çağatay Tuna Özüdoğru (pp. 34-55)

• Use Value of Built Cultural Heritage 19th – 20th Century, Ioan Darida (pp. 56-67)

• Restoration, reconstruction and protection interventions of concrete and reinforced concrete structures, Rareș Brădeanu (pp. 68-95)

• Restoration of the Mural Paintings in Gura Motrului. Final Observations, Elena Murariu (pp. 96-133)

• Interventions carried out in extremis: the detachment of mural painting fragments within the Tismana Monastery complex and their transfer onto new supports, Laura Hangiu, Ioana Olteanu, Maria Dumbrăvician, Sebastian Burlănescu (pp. 134-161)

• Northern Transylvanian Saxon churches at the risk of dereliction, Eszter Kiss, (pp. 162-181)

• Research on the restoration and monitoring of Bukovina monuments, 1910–1914, Ileana Maria Kisilewicz (pp. 182-207)

• Reversibility and Legibility of Restoration Interventions. Case Studies: Carafe. Lachrymal Vase. Lamp. Cup-bowl, Oana Mari Solomon (pp. 208-221)

• Aspects regarding the restoration and conservation of Persian and Ottoman Artworks in the National Museum of Art of Romania, Andreia Maria Teodorescu (pp. 222-233)

• Between utilitarian and artistic. The stoves of the ”Saint Sylvester” church in Bucharest, Ana Bârcă (pp.234-245)

• The Restorer and the Art Historian: A Dialogue, Tereza Sinigalia (pp. 246-263)

• Iconographic and Epigraphic Reconstructions for the Medieval Church in Suseni-Colţ, Hunedoara County, Dragoș Gh. Năstăsoiu (pp. 264-305)