{"id":2325,"date":"2017-01-17T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeovision.eu\/uncategorized\/toomkiriku-altari-figuuride-dokumenteerimine\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:41:54","slug":"st-marys-wooden-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archaeovision.eu\/en\/rd\/st-marys-wooden-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"The documentation of wooden figures at St Mary’s Cathedral, Tallinn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since mid-November Andres Uueni has been involved in a project called\u00a0Christian Ackermann \u2013 Tallinn\u2019s Pheidias, Arrogant and Talented<\/a>\u00a0at St Mary’s Cathedral, Tallinn.<\/p>\n

The Project leaders for this project are the Estonian Academy of Arts<\/a> and the\u00a0Estonian Art Museum<\/a><\/p>\n

The objective of the project was\u00a0to rescue\u00a0Christian Ackermann, the most scandalous and talented carver of Estonia\u2019s Baroque era, from oblivion. Ackermann, who was dubbed Tallinn\u2019s Pheidias<\/a> (an Ancient Greek sculptor between ca. 480 to 430 BC), broke free of the strict centuries-old guild system, and between 1680 and 1710 produced almost all of the most noteworthy elements of church interiors in Estonia.<\/p>\n

During the course of the project, a re-evaluation of the altar walls, pulpits, baptistery and other artistically valuable objects that have been attributed to Ackermann will be\u00a0completed, through contemporary methodological and technological approaches, as well as criticisms of various sources of information, The approach used includes the views\u00a0of leading\u00a0specialists who are examining\u00a0the materials used in\u00a0Ackermann\u2019s carvings and cabinets, along with the different stylistic techniques, typology and polychromy of these objects.<\/p>\n

The project is already underway and has begun with the examination and the documentation of the sculptor\u2019s masterpiece, the altar wall of the Tallinn Cathedral<\/a> (1694\u20131696), which was produced in Ackermann\u2019s workshop.<\/p>\n

The research project will result in an exhibition of this work at the Art Museum of Estonia\u2019s Niguliste Museum<\/a> in 2020, where our Rode Altarpiece<\/a> examination is housed.<\/p>\n

During the documentation work completed so far, Andres has been\u00a0testing the suitability of different recording methods, such as photogrammetry and other 3D modelling methods. An example of this work can be seen below, which depicts the\u00a0wooden figures from Ackermann’s\u00a0altarpiece:<\/p>\n