<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Dendrochronological analysis was carried out for 13 historic icons from the collection of the Museum of the Folk Building in Sanok, painted on fir and spruce boards. Eleven sequences of the annual growth rings produced from the analysed fir boards were absolutely dated against the fir dendrochronological standard for S Poland, constructed by E. Szychowska-Krąpiec. Most of the analysed objects date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, only one board was dated to the midnineteenth century. The dendrochronological analyses carried out prove broad possibilities of dating objects of the iconographic art painted on panels from fir wood, originating from south-eastern Poland and adjacent areas.</p></abstract>

Dendrochronological analysis was carried out for 13 historic icons from the collection of the Museum of the Folk Building in Sanok, painted on fir and spruce boards. Eleven sequences of the annual growth rings produced from the analysed fir boards were absolutely dated against the fir dendrochronological standard for S Poland, constructed by E. Szychowska-Krąpiec. Most of the analysed objects date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, only one board was dated to the midnineteenth century. The dendrochronological analyses carried out prove broad possibilities of dating objects of the iconographic art painted on panels from fir wood, originating from south-eastern Poland and adjacent areas.

Dendrochronological Dating of Icons from the Museum of the Folk Building in Sanok

Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, 30-059 Cracow, Mickiewicza 30, Poland

Geochronometria

Dendrochronological analysis was carried out for 13 historic icons from the collection of the Museum of the Folk Building in Sanok, painted on fir and spruce...

Dendrochronological Dating of Icons from the Museum of the Folk Building in Sanok

Published Online: Feb 21, 2007

Page range: 53 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10003-007-0003-4

Keywords
dendrochronology, painting-panel dating, icons, S Poland

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Dendrochronological Dating of Icons from the Museum of the Folk Building in Sanok

Published Online: Feb 21, 2007

Page range: 53 - 59

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10003-007-0003-4

Keywordsdendrochronology, painting-panel dating, icons, S Poland

This content is open access.

Keywords
dendrochronology, painting-panel dating, icons, S Poland