Funerary sculpture of Christ in tomb from Santa Clara-a-Velha (Coimbra) museum’s collection – structural treatment

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Maria Júlia Sobral da Fonseca
Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Velha
Fernando Manuel da Conceição Costa
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2726-1679
Carlos Monteiro
CaCO3 – Conservação do Património Artístico, Lda

Abstract

This paper aims to report the restoration treatment of a painted sculpture in Ançã’s limestone (Cantanhede region), from the Santa Clara-a-Velha museum’s collection (Coimbra), multi fractured and multi-intervened needing an urgent restoration. The main goal of this intervention was to give the tomb structural strength to make possible its return to the Permanent Exhibition. Conceived as a religious funerary model, an important outlined criteria has been its exhibition as a tomb. In the framework of a very complex intervention, the first challenge for the team was to solve the tomb´s cover problem, broken in four large pieces. The answering to this task was fundamental because the tomb´s cover formed an entire and articulated kit with the three remain parts, its main support.The several options and decisions are analysed and discussed, as well as the problems related with its implementation.

Keywords: Sculpture, Polychrome, Tomb, Stone, Limestone, Structure

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