Defensive Orthodox church, Supraśl, Poland - interior (part 3 of 3)
The ambitious project to restore the frescoes, of which the salvaged fragments can be viewed at the Museum of Icons, was based on the use of the original technique of working on wet plaster, as the author of the Supraśl polychromes, the Serbian monk Nektarius, did over five centuries ago (according to sources, he completed his work on them in 1557).
Preparations for the reconstruction lasted several years. Specialists who are capable of creating frescoes in this manner were found in Serbia, at the Academy of Arts and Conservation in Belgrade. The main source of knowledge about what the frescoes looked like is photographic documentation from the early 20th century, but the creators also referred to, for example, a book on fresco painting that Nektarius wrote.
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