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Conservation Summary
Across the U.S., outdoor sculptures are highly visible focal
points, and often reflect the current vitality of a community
and its previous significant cultural and historic events.
Following a survey in 1993 by volunteers for the national
Save Outdoor Sculpture! project, works of public art in Hillsborough
County have been registered for the first time on the Save Outdoor
Sculpture! (SOS!) National sculpture registry. Throughout the
nation, including this County, hundreds of volunteers surveyed
and inventoried thousands of historic and contemporary outdoor
sculptures for SOS! which is jointly sponsored by the National
Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and the National
Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property.
Hillsborough County's Memoria In Aeterna donated in 1911 to
the County by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) Tampa
Chapter #113 is fabricated of imported Italian marble, and is
a permenant Civil War memorial on public property.
The County, being sensitive to the needs of its public art
collection, sought the expertise of Chief Conservator, John
Maseman, an Associate of the National Institute for the Conservation
of
Cultural Property, and the Director of the South Florida
Conservation Center regarding the condition assessment of
this unique memorial.
The results of the 1995 condition survey by Mr. Maseman established
the current condition of the sculpture and the need for the
conservation treatmentas outlined in the condition assessment. |
