The bilingual monograph represents a comprehensive publication of the analyses carried out on the two oldest artillery pieces preserved in the Slovenian museums. Both had been examined by using various, predominantly non-destructive, analytical methods, which revealed the internal construction of the gun barrels. In regard to the detail and scope of the research the monograph ranks among the major recent original contributions to the history of early artillery. The work includes an extensive study of the role of gunpowder weapons in the Slovenian lands at the end of the medieval period, including a treatment of hitherto unknown, yet highly valuable primary sources.
COBISS.SI-ID: 282866944
In the 19th century the glassmakers were experimenting with old techniques, colors, and new materials. They wanted to reinvent the techniques, developed by Murano glaziers in the time of 14th to 16th centuries. 19th century is also the time of fakes. One of the most prestigious materials was ruby glass. It was made by adding gold into the glass mass. We wanted to find out if the real ruby glass was used on certain artifacts, or there were cheaper surrogates. The difference is not visible by naked eye. The results showed that the glassmakers have used copper compounds. The manufacture of these was much cheaper and thus much wider circles of consumers were able to buy the »objects of prestige«.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27419687
In the absence of royal courts, provincial noble elites were, for centuries, the main bearers of the most refined lifestyle in the territory of the present-day Slovenia. Therefore, castle interiors are of pivotal importance for investigating furnishing in the said territory. Study of interiors bases on the survived pieces, on the data contained in probate inventories and on historical photographs.
COBISS.SI-ID: 8337248
The single-edged Messer is believed to have been something of a counterpart to the more prestigious "knightly" double-edged sword in15th and 16th c. central Europe. As a typical weapon of the lower classes it received relatively little scholarly attention. A good example of a Messer from the National Museum of Slovenia has been submitted to a range of scientific analyses. Detailed information was obtained in regard to the material composition of the blade and the technology of its manufacture. In terms of quality, the analysed Messer was in no way inferior to the majority of military arms of the period, including those intended for the social elite.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1085534
The monograph titled 'The Deeds Pertaining to the Jesuit College of Ljubljana in the period 1592-1751' was published in 2014, on the 200th anniversary of the reactivation of the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuit Order. The activities of this order had had a profound impact on our ancestors and the collegia in Graz, Ljubljana, Maribor, Gorizia, Trieste and Klagenfurt. They shaped systematically the Slovenian Catholic intellectuals, left a deep imprint in the sphere of culture through the new trends in baroque art while their spiritual mission played a key role in the shaping of the Slovenian Catholic believers with sermons, popular missions, St. Mary's congregations and cathechesis. The publication of these primary sources allowed researchers easier access to the material while serving as an excellent supplement to the digital publication of the deeds available online.
COBISS.SI-ID: 276627456
The paper focuses on two steel plates uncovered during the archaeological excavations at Kozlov rob above Tolmin. Due to their unusual shape, the purpose of the plates has never been explained entirely. Systematic material analyses, particularly metallographic examination, have determined that at least one of the plates belonged to military armour while the second was merely a semiproduct; both were later reworked to perform a new function.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1250986
The enormous development and production of plastic materials in the last century resulted in increasing numbers of such kinds of objects. Development of a simple and fast technique to classify different types of plastics could be used in many activities dealing with plastic materials such as packaging of food, sorting of used plastic materials, and also, if technique would be non-destructive, for conservation of plastic artifacts in museum collections, a relatively new field of interest since 1990. In our previous paper we introduced a non-destructive technique for fast identification of unknown plastics based on EDXRF spectrometry, using as a case study some plastic artifacts archived in the Museum in order to show the advantages of the nondestructive identification of plastic material. In order to validate our technique it was necessary to apply for this purpose the comparison of analyses with some of the analytical techniques, which are more suitable and so far rather widely applied in identifying some most common sorts of plastic materials.
COBISS.SI-ID: 26998823
In the period between the French revolution and World War One, Austrian monarchy experienced a dynamic political, economic and cultural growth of its multifarious population, also hugely increasing the need for writing furniture of all shapes and sizes. Vienna, its metropolis, was of course accumulating by far the largest quantities of goods, creative people and ideas. Its educational-academic ranks produced novel artistic movements and its entrepreneurial sphere founded the first furniture firms on an industrial scale. Writing cupboards, secretaires, desks, school desks, writing chairs and archival cabinets, which were being designed and manufactured in Vienna in a variety of styles (from neo-classical, empire, biedermeier, historicist through art nouveau) found customers wide across the country, including the Slovenian lands with their capital Ljubljana. The majority of this type of furniture, however, were created, mostly to Viennese models, by domestic cabinet-makers. Between the two cities, a number of ties were being made – personal, via publications and exhibitions – and strenghtened, following the construction of the railway. While in the 1790s Ljubljana was primarily the capital of the Duchy of Carniola, by 1914 it had sprouted a number of its own political, economic and cultural institutions, elevating it to the actual capital of all the Slovenians. The centuries-long common history of these two capitals, including the working environment of their officials, authors, teachers and other people writing, professionaly or not, is impossible ever to negate.
COBISS.SI-ID: 9139808
Museum objects, such as the daggers presented in this study, contain a wealth of information regarding their role in certain historic periods, their potential users, the art of manufacture, the type of material used etc. Utilization of various modern instrumental techniques facilitates compositional information about the unknown artifact under investigation. In this study, a set of traditional Asian daggers called kris or keris, with scarce information about their entry into museum collections, their origin, the type of material used, the date of production, etc., were analysed by Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence spectrometry (EDXRF), Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and hardness measurements. In this way, the traditional procedure of historian inspection was supplemented by the scientific approach to obtain information about the artifacts.
COBISS.SI-ID: 993450
The article deals with the charter by Emperor Frederick III on the improvement of the Carniolan coat of arms from January 1463, which is one of the more important documents of the 15th century. Its issue is set in the context of historical events in this turbulent period. Attention has been turned to the establishment of honorary posts of the hereditary Marshall, Steward, and Cup-bearer in Carniola and in the Windic March, since ground for their creation are closely linked to the aforementioned charter. The research also deals with thirty-two noblemen who are known by name; it has been proven that they do not represent the entire Carniolan contingent that helped the emperor in Vienna.
COBISS.SI-ID: 62557026