Location
Croatia, Sisak-Moslavina County, Kutina
Parish Church of Our Lady of Snow (Župna crkva Majke Božje Snježne)
Artwork
The sculpture of Ascending Christ in in the Parish Church of Our Lady of Snow in Kutina
Type
Sculpture
Dimensions
Height: 69 cm, width: 35 cm, depth: 19 cm
Critical History
The sculpture of Ascending Christ is placed on a confessional made by Mirko Turkalj in 1986. It bears stylistic features of Franz Anton Straub's artwork, showing particular resemblance with the sculptural group of Baptism in the Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kloštar Ivanić.1 Archival sources do not mention the sculpture and its origin stays unknown. The high altar together with its tabernacle is earlier than this sculpture and there are no written confirmations that it was ordered for the church in Kutina. However, relatively nearby Velika Ludina do have tabernacle by Franz Anton Straub lacking the original sculpture of Ascending Christ to be displayed during the Passion period.
Components
- Sculpture
- Author: Franz Anton Straub (Wiesensteig 1726 – Zagreb ca. 1774)
- Completed: ca. 1760 – ca. 1765
- Technique(s): wood carving
- Polychromy
- Completed: ca. 1760 – ca. 1765
- Material(s): calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate dihydrate, gold leaf, lead white, red bole, red iron oxide
- Polychromy
- First repolychromy
- Material(s): iron oxide, lead white, minium, zink white
- Polychromy
- Second repolychromy
- Material(s): barium sulphate, gold leaf, iron oxide, lead white, verdigris, zink white
- Polychromy
- Third repolychromy
- Author: Mirko Turkalj
- Completed: 1986
- Material(s): barium sulphate, brass leaf, cobalt blue, iron oxide, zink white
Conservation-restoration
- 2022
Strategy: preserving one or several repolychromies, preserving patina, preserving varnish, removing dirt
Approach to the presentation of losses
Preserving lacunae: total
Treatment Description
In 2022 the Croatian Conservation Institute executed conservation-restoration investigations of the polychrome wooden inventory and paintings within the church. The stratigraphical research on the sculpture of Ascending Christ showed up to 13 layers - far more than any other part of the church inventory.2
Images
- Sculpture of Ascending Christ in the Parish Church of Our Lady of Snow in Kutina (Croatian Conservation Institute, Photo Archive, photo by Goran Tomljenović, 2022)
- Confessional with the Sculpture of Ascending Christ in the Parish Church of Our Lady of Snow in Kutina (Croatian Conservation Institute, Photo Archive, photo by Goran Tomljenović, 2022)
Catalogue entry prepared by Ksenija Škarić
Recommended citation: Ksenija Škarić, The sculpture of Ascending Christ in in the Parish Church of Our Lady of Snow in Kutina, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 18/02/2025) URL