PAINTED REAR PANEL OF A CARRIAGE, ？ARAGA, FROM THE LEITNER CASTLE IN JALKOVEC

Sa？etak The text consists of two parts: the first one analysing the item called ？araga in the holdings of the Department of Culture and History of the Vara？din City Museum, and providing insight into its initial owners, members of the aristocratic family of Leitner, and the second one giving a comprehensive description of the complex restoration and conservation works conducted by the experts of the Restoration Department in Ludbreg within the Croatian Conservation Institute in Zagreb. In the collection of the Vara？din City Museum, an interesting, but severely damaged object was found, on which no museum records were detected. The research confirmed that the item was of significant artistic and cultural value and that it represented a part of a carriage in the former ownership of the Leitner family from Vara？din. Owing to the data collected and the evaluation of the item, it was enlisted in the conservation program of the Croatian Conservation Institute. In the Restoration Department in Ludbreg, in the period from 2015 to 2016, conservation and restoration work was performed on the item, during which original painting and paint stratigraphy were discovered. The cause of separation of the boards comprising the central painted panel was disovered. Industrial nails causing the separation were removed, and will be replaced with flexible brass nails, hence preventing future damage. Upon finishing the restoration work, the item will be included into the permanent exhibition of the Department of Culture and History in the Old Town