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Valvasor`s workshop

This presentation of the life and work ofJohann Weichard Valvasor (1641-1693) at Wagensberg Castle - Bogenperk - was conceived in 1980as a joint venture between the Castles renovation committee, the TMS and Dr Branko Reisp. The collection was remodelled and renovatedby the TMS and Javni Zavod Bogenperk (Wagensberg Institute) in 2002.

The exhibition covers three rooms.

The first room is a reconstruction of Valvasors study, including the chair and desk at which he conceived and penned his works. The milieuis complemented with an overview of the life and career of this great 17th century polyhistor and Fellow of the London Royal Society, theman who first brought his native province of Carniola to the attention of he world. In addition to his most important and renowned work,the 15-volume Die Ehre des Herzogthums Crain (Glory of the Duchy of Carniola) of 1689, the visitor can admire a facsimile of Valvasors

Heraldic Insignia and Devices (Opus Insignium Armorumque) containing over 2,000 coats-of-arms. There are also a number of other reprintsof his work, as well as a selection of redactions and translations.

The second room contains a new presentation of the output of his graphics workshop the copperplate engraving and printing works thatValvasor established here in his home, Wagensberg Castle, on 12th April 1678. Special attention is also given to Valvasors colleagues andco-workers - the artists, copperplate engravers and printers - as well as to the processes, which were employed. This workshop, which wasin fact the first graphics enterprise on Slovene territory, was in operation until 1689.Based on the information from the preserved books of sketches, there is a presentation of the actual methods employed in producing theimages in Valvasors publications, as well as an introduction to the copperplate engraving, which in the 16th century had graduallysupplanted wood cut prints. The predomination of what at the time was a relatively new graphic technique, provided Valvasor with a moreprecise execution of both the entire image as well as precise details. This presentation of copperplate engraving is also complemented witha documentary film.Seven other of Valvasors works were written and published at Wagensberg Castle. Three of these - The Passions of Christ (DominicaePassionis Icones, 1679), Ovids Metamorphoses (Ovidii Metamorphoseos Icones, 1680) and Scenes of Human Death in Three Parts (TheatrumMortis Humanae Tripartitum, 1682) - had an overtly artistic motif. The remaining four works were of a topographic-historical nature.There is also a display of Valvasors publications in facsimile and some copperplate engravings from A Contemporary Topography of theDuchy of Carniola (Topographia Ducatus Carnioliae Modernae) of 1679. Through hundreds of vedute of castles, market boroughs, towns andmonasteries, 17th century Carniola and Carinthia have been brought to life and thus preserved forever through the wealth of masterlyengravings produced in Valvasors workshop. The presentation of prints is complemented by a projection of graphics from a variety ofValvasors works.

The third room is an actual reconstruction of a late-17th century graphics workshop, replete with tools, accessories, as well as machinery

and other devices, including a wooden cylinder press for the reproduction of the copperplate engravings. The workshop hosts occasionaldemonstrations of the offset printing process using the press, further to which exact copies of Valvasors original plates are used to makeimprints.

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