Location
Slovenia, Makole
Parish Church of St Andrew (Župnijska cerkev sv. Andreja)
Artwork
The side altar of St Peter and St Sebastian in the Parish Church of St Andrew in Makole
Type
Side altar
Dimensions
Height: 469 cm, width: 305 cm, depth: 100 cm
Critical History
The side altar of St Peter and St Sebastian was mentioned for the first time in the visitation record of the parish church of St Andrew from July 9, 1756.1 The chapel and the side altar of St Sebastian (and St Peter) were also described in the inventory from 1900.2 The altar was attributed to Joseph Straub by Sergej Vrišer.3 In the centre of the altar there is an altar painting with St Peter and St Sebastian. To the left of the painting, there is the statue of St Charles Borromeo in a cardinal dress and a rope around his neck and to the right side the statue of St Roch with a dog beside his legs. In the upper part there is the figure of God the Father, surrounded with angels and angel heads. He has significant characteristics and dynamic posture, which can be well compared with other sculptures of God the Father of Joseph Straub (St Mary`s altar in Selnica ob Dravi, the high altar in St Joseph church in Slovenska Bistrica).
Construction / Execution
The side altar is made of wood. It is placed close to the wall. Polychromy of architecture imitates marble, ornamentation imitates gold. The marbling consists of blue and brown shades. Sculptures are naturalistically painted, the drapery and wings are gilded. The two pillars have blue marbling on silvered surface.
Components
- Carpentry
- Carpentry
- Technique(s): sawing, wood carving
- Material(s): softwood
- Sculpture
- Sculpture
- Author: Joseph Straub (Wiesensteig 1712 – Maribor 1756)
- Technique(s): wood carving
- Material(s): limewood
- Polychromy
- Polychromy
- Technique(s): oil, water gilding
- Material(s): gold leaf, oil, silver leaf
Conservation-restoration
- Restoration of the altar
Strategy: removing dirt, removing one or several historic repolychromies
Approach to the presentation of losses
Reintegration of lacunae – mimetic: total
Reintegration of losses – other: total
Materials: acetone, beeswax, Bologna chalk, dammar varnish, gold leaf, gold powder, limewood, Paraloid B-72, red bole, shellack, silver leaf, size, turpentine oil, wood powder
Treatment Description
Repolychromy was only partially removed because of possible loss of original polychromy. The original gilding was preserved. The losses were reconstructed. The restoration works were done by Jasna Radšel and Aleksander Šiles.
Images
- The side altar of St Peter and St Sebastian in Makole (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The sculpture of St Charles Borromeo (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The sculpture of St Roch (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The altar painting with St Peter and St Sebastian (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The side altar of St Peter and St Sebastian in Makole, before the restoration works (photo by Valentina Pavlič, 2016)
- The sculpture of St Roch, before the restoration works (photo by Valentina Pavlič, 2016)
Catalogue entry prepared by Valentina Pavlič and Saša Dolinšek
Recommended citation: Valentina Pavlič and Saša Dolinšek, The side altar of St Peter and St Sebastian in the Parish Church of St Andrew in Makole, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 19/11/2025) URL
