Mikó Árpád szerk.: "Magnificat anima mea Dominum" M S Mester vizitáció-képe és egykori selmecbányai főoltára (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 1997/1)
TANULMÁNYOK / ESSAYS - MENRÁTH PÉTER-HERNÁDY SZILVIA: M S mester Vizitáció-képének restaurálása
Notes 1 VOSS 1907, X. 2 DIVALD 1910, plate 27. 3 ibid. 26. 4 For the detailed description of the system of cradling, and for its dating, see the relevant chapter. 5 The document registering the condition of the painting dates from December 2, 1975. It is held in the Old Hungarian Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. 6 In publishing the information about earlier repair work on the panel, I relied on the restorer Miklós Szentkirályi' s summary report on the subject, submitted on January 14, 1990. In the 1960s, the painting was treated by the restorers György Kákay Szabó and Miklós Móré. In 1974 it was repaired by the restorer Tiborné Eisenmayer. After the flooding of the Gallery's storeroom in 1977, the necessary repairs - the laying of the paint with a spatula and the regenerating of the varnish - were done by Miklós Szentkirályi. In 1981 the panel was prepared for the exhibition to be opened in the throne hall in 1982 by Zsuzsa Horn and Miklós Szentkirályi. In 1986 further repairs were carried out by Miklós Szentkirályi. 7 The majority of the twelve fixed members of the cradling system made in 1937, which had all been glued on parallel with the grain along the joints between the boards. Proceeding from left to right, the second, the fourth and the sixth of the seven joints were left "open". The middle joint (no. 4) was reinforced with dove-tail joints. The vertical fixed members were made of pine battens 4 cm wide and 2.5 cm thick, while the 12 horizontal runners were of oak 3.9 wide and 1.2 cm thick. The 1320 cm 2 area of the panel, of which one fifth (256 cm 2 ) was covered with the glued members, while one third of the panel (440 cm 2 ) was covered with the runners. Before installing the cradling system, the surface of the rear of the panel was roughened, for better adhesion of the glue. 8 Debye-Scherrer method 9 Infra-red spectroscopy using Fourier transformation. 0 The examinations were carried out by Zoltán Szalay, biologist and restorer.
