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Nineteen sculptures Large cascade and Bucket public channel of the sea Museum in Peterhof (Saint Petersburg) was dismantled and transferred to restoration. Correspondent BakuToday reported today, 27 January, the press service of the Museum.
The Museum said that the restoration of the huge statue “Neva gone” and “Volkhov” at the south wall of the Bucket, the statue of “Juno”, “Galatea”, “ACIS”, “Pandora” and “Perseus” at cascade staircases, two statues “Fighter” and two figures of frogs at the front of the lower Grotto, two sculptural groups “Sirens,” two groups “Naiad” and tritonom with four figures of dolphins on the sides of the bucket.
Within a few months in the workshops will be carried out restoration work on clearing the surface of nineteen for the restoration of the sculptures from the remnants of the old gilt and “training” under the gold leaf, consisting of several layers of paint, remedy defects on metal, “training” under the gilded and subsequent zoločeniû. Vyzoločennaâ sculpture for three weeks to stay in a Studio with temperature and humidity for the full consolidation of gilding on the surface. To the summer season the statue will return to their places on the big cascade and the ladle Sea channel.
Restoration work will be specialists in the workshops of the scientific-production firm “PIN” restoration, which in 2010, beginning the cycle of restoration with perezoločeniem sculptural decoration of the big cascade and Bucket Sea channel Peterhof. First of all, fourteen statues were restored and twelve fountain vases. In 2011, a restoration of the perezoločeniem Grand sculptural Ensemble “Samson, the Sampson rending open the jaws of the lion, which itself” Samson “, four figures of lions and eight figures of dolphins, as well as four Large statues of the cascade.
