TY - JOUR
TI - The painting ‘The Allegory of Life’, from the collection of Professor Wieslaw Litewski, the University Museum in Torun. History, technology, and technique
AU - Olszewska-Świetlik, Justyna
TI - The painting ‘The Allegory of Life’, from the collection of Professor Wieslaw Litewski, the University Museum in Torun. History, technology, and technique
AB - 
	The University Museum in Torun holds the 18th century painting depicting the allegory of life, attributed to the German artist Christian Wilhelm Ernest Dietrich (1712–1774). The work forms part of Professor Wieslaw Litewski’s collection of pre-modern art, bequeathed to the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun in 2000. This paper discusses the identification of technology and painting technique of the work, based on a complex technological and restoration examination. The materials used in the painting process and the moulding techniquehave been identified and described, along  with presenting the historical informationand description of the iconography of the motif of life’s evanescence. The paint technique has been shown in the context of the rules of Dutch painting, discussed by Teodor Turquet de Mayerne in the manuscript Pictoria Sculptoria et qua subalternarum atrium spectantia, 1620–1649, and the Gerard de Lairesse’s treatise Het groot schilderboeck published in 1707. The examination results serve as a source material complementing the knowledge on the 18th century painting techniques.   
VL - Volume 25 (2018)
IS - Volume 25
PY - 2018
SN - 0239-9989
C1 - 2084-3852
SP - 189
EP - 208
DO - 10.4467/20843852.OM.17.016.9613
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/opuscula-musealia/article/obraz-alegoria-zycia-z-kolekcji-prof-wieslawa-litewskiego-muzeum-uniwersyteckie-w-toruniu-historia-technologia-i-technika
KW - 18th century painting
KW - painting technology and technique
KW - the University Museum in Torun
KW - Ch.W.E. Dietrich (1712–1774)
KW - German painting
KW - de Mayerne’s treatise
KW - de Lairesse’s treatise