Abstract
Abstract. The church of Santiago Apóstol of Kuñotambo is located in the southeast area of the Cusco province of Acomayo, containing remarkable interior mural paintings that contribute to the heritage value of the building and the area. The building was studied, conserved and seismically retrofitted as a model project for the Seismic Retrofitting Project (SRP), a collaborative project between the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the Ministry of Culture of Peru in Cusco. Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) participated in the documentation of the decorated surfaces with an initial campaign in 2013, organized a series of workshops on documentation theory and practice with international experts and local professionals in 2017, and carried out a final recording after the conclusion of the site work in 2019. This last documentation phase provided a comprehensive documentation baseline and acquisition guidelines to plan the future long-term care of the decorated surfaces after their conservation. This paper presents the documentation carried out in 2019 and focuses on the three documentation scenarios proposed for the long-term preservation of decorated surfaces in the church: (1) Visual Documentation; (2) Digital Documentation; and (3) Comprehensive Digital Documentation. These different scenarios considered the particularly isolated location of the temple, the availability of equipment, the level of expertise in the different techniques proposed, and the frequency of future monitoring activities. Finally, the required tasks, necessary equipment, and potential challenges are presented for each of the documentation scenarios, with the objective being to offer a sustainable framework over time that serves the future Monitoring Plan for the heritage site.
Highlights
The church of Santiago Apóstol is the most prominent building in the rural village of Kuñotambo, located in the province of Acomayo, southeast of Cusco (Figure 1)
The church displays thick adobe walls over a rubble stone masonry, a wood-framed gable roof, and interior decorated surfaces. It was selected as a case study for the Seismic Retrofitting Project (SRP), a collaboration between the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the Ministry of Culture of Peru in Cusco, due to its architectural and decorated features, representative of the typology of religious buildings constructed in the region of the Andes during the Spanish Viceroyalty, and of their characteristic structural modes of failure
The documentation of the mural paintings acknowledges the importance of considering the multiscale documentation of decorated surfaces (Reina et al, 2019) that takes into consideration the importance of three-dimensional stratigraphy as well as time—the fourth dimension of wall paintings (Cather, 1992; Cather, 2010)
Summary
The church of Santiago Apóstol is the most prominent building in the rural village of Kuñotambo, located in the province of Acomayo, southeast of Cusco (Figure 1). The church displays thick adobe walls over a rubble stone masonry, a wood-framed gable roof, and interior decorated surfaces. It was selected as a case study for the Seismic Retrofitting Project (SRP), a collaboration between the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the Ministry of Culture of Peru in Cusco, due to its architectural and decorated features, representative of the typology of religious buildings constructed in the region of the Andes during the Spanish Viceroyalty, and of their characteristic structural modes of failure. Between 2016 and 2019, the Ministry of Culture of Peru in Cusco collaborated with the GCI and various consultants to define the technical The double-blind peer-review was conducted on the basis of the full paper
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