Location
Slovenia, Rogatec
Artwork
Pulpit in the Parish Church of St Bartholomew in Rogatec
Type
Pulpit
Dimensions
Height: 530 cm, width: 180 cm, depth: 130 cm
Critical History
The pulpit in the Parish Church of St Bartholomew in Rogatec was attributed to Joseph Straub by Sergej Vrišer.1
The body of the pulpit is decorated with four vases with flowers and reliefs between them. The relief in the middle depicts the Last Judgement, while the reliefs on the sides depict the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust.2 On the canopy of the pulpit, there is an angel with a trumpet, surrounded with four putti and clouds. The angel and putti show significant similarities with other works by Joseph Straub (curly hair, big open eyes).
Construction / Execution
The pulpit is made of wood. The surface imitates gold and stone (marble). The architecture of the pulpit is marbled in dark blue and brown tones. The ornaments are gilded in combination with polished white. The sculptures on the canopy of the pulpit are presented in polished white.
Components
- Carpentry
- Carpentry
- Technique(s): sawing
- Material(s): softwood
- Sculpture
- Sculpture
- Author: Joseph Straub (Wiesensteig 1712 – Maribor 1756)
- Technique(s): sawing, wood carving
- Material(s): limewood
- Polychromy
- Polychromy
- Technique(s): oil
- Polychromy
- First repolychromy
- Technique(s): tempera
- Polychromy
- Second repolychromy
- Technique(s): oil
- Material(s): metallic pigment
Comment
The architecture of the pulpit had three layers of polychromy. The first repolychromy was made in tempera, the second repolychromy was made in oil paint. During the first repolychromy some parts in polished white were gilded. The gilded surfaces were painted with bronze in the second repolychromy.
Conservation-restoration
- 2001–2002
Strategy: removing dirt, removing one or several historic repolychromies
Approach to the presentation of losses
Reintegration of losses – other: total
Reconstruction of losses: total
Materials: acetone, Bologna chalk, dammar varnish, gold leaf, limewood, Paraloid B-72, rabbit-skin glue, red bole, shellack, size, turpentine oil
Treatment Description
The restoration began in 2001. The academic sculptor and private restorer Gregor Podkrižnik removed dirt and both repolychromies from the entire surface of the pulpit. The original painting and gilding was conserved. Losses were reconstructed in gilded and painted areas.
Some missing parts on the sculptures and ornamentation were reconstructed with carved limewood pieces.
Images
- The pulpit in the Parish Church of St Bartholomew in Rogatec (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The body of the pulpit in Rogatec (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The canopy of the pulpit in Rogatec (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The relief with the depiction of the Resurrection of the Unjust (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The relief with the depiction of the Last Judgement (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
- The sculpture of putto (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, photo by Valentin Benedik, 2018)
Catalogue entry prepared by Valentina Pavlič and Saša Dolinšek
Recommended citation: Valentina Pavlič and Saša Dolinšek, Pulpit in the Parish Church of St Bartholomew in Rogatec, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 19/11/2025) URL
