Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis 16.-17. (1978-1979)

Osgyányi Vilmos: Marco Casagrande Eger várbeli Szent István király szobrának restaurálása

stone, or to express ourselves more correctly of a stone imitation. Preparing the artificial stone or rather the stone imitation it is an outstanding point of view, that the additional material should be of the same structure as the original stone material, or at least very near to it. The binding constancy of the cast must not surpass the fracture constancy of the stone to be completed. The water absorbing capacity should be the same. It is a known fact that the cement makes the artificial stone impermeable, this property can be equiponderated by adding swelled pearlite and with the diminishing of the cement proportion. We can find with the empirical use of these, the approximately adequate material. If there is a possibility in researching the completing, preserving materials in an experimental way in laboratories, so the durability as well as the guarantee safety will increase. By restoring the statue of St. Stephen, we have saved a kind of relic which can be found in a great number in the north, northeast of the country. For instance the 4 statues, standing before the cathedral, which were planned by Hild József and sculptured by Marco Casagrande, representing King St. Stephen, King St. László. St. Peter and St. Paul. Presently the originals of these statues are somewhere in the garden of the Episcopate. The statue of St. Stephen, which has regained its original form, will be replaced on the clustered column of the XVI-th century cathedral, consecrated to St. John, wich too has been restored in an up-to-date way. 252