Conservation of interior furnishings of St Marc Church in Kraków, 2007-2009

The Gothic St Marc Church is situated at the intersection of Sławkowska and St Marc streets in Kraków. The first written record of the monastic St Marc the Evangelist Church is dated at 1295. It survived to the present day in its Gothic form with an early Baroque interior.

In 2007 the Interacademic Institute of Conservation and Restoration of Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków begun to realize a conservation program based on the following guidelines. Conservation work regarding the church’s interior furnishings was divided into stages, beginning with the eight altars and continuing with objects situated on the northern and southern walls, like the pulpit, or the St Ersmus painting with stucco framing and feretories.