Description:
The Art Museum of Estonia Niguliste Museum's project The Rode Altar in Close-Up focuses on the conservation and technical analyses of the altarpiece of the high altar of St. Nicholas' Church in Tallinn (1478-1481) completed in the Lübeck workshop of the master Hermen Rode. This is one of the most splendid and best preserved late medieval northern German altarpieces in the whole world. Comparative analyses were carried out wirhin the framework of the project with another altarpiece made in the same workshop, that of the Lübeck painters' gild (1480- 1490) located in rhe St. Annen Museum in Lübeck. The focus of this project was on conducting imaging- and information technological analyses and material examinations, the comprehensive documentation of the work, and the mapping of this information. A great deal of attention has been directed towards involving the public through educational programmes, workshops and multimedia programmes reflecting the results of the research conducted (website, blog, interactive multimedia programme, science-web, short fllms documenting the work done in the project, etc.). A web-based scientific portal on the Tallinn and Lübeck altarpieces rhat is accessible to the public (http:/ /rode.ekm.ee) and an interdisciplinary publication that brings tagether rhe research methods employed and the resu!ts obtained borh present the resu!ts of the project's scientific research.