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A large, carved, polychrome memorial cross, located in the chapel at the Assumption Cathedral in Kem (an accurately dated artifact of the second half of the 17th century) was identified as part of an expedition of specialists from the Russian Museum in 2020. The first comprehensive study of the monument is carried out, the results of which make it possible to accurately determine the materials and technique of execution both of the base and the polychrome cutting. After an initial ultraviolet (UV) study, detailed photofixation, and X‑ray fluorescence analysis of the pigments, determination of the composition of the layers of pictorial and metallized cuts is continued using analytical and histochemical methods. The results obtained do not reveal any data that contradict art-history dating. Thus, the result of the study is the identification, attribution and introduction into the information field of another precisely dated site of the White Sea region, and a comprehensive analysis of the finishing materials makes it possible to carry out the proposed restoration of the author’s color scheme. |
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