Publishes 17 essays originally published in Burlington Magazine 2016-2022.
Contents:
The conservation history of the Ghent Altarpiece / by Hélène Dubois -- Theodore de Mayerne, the King's black paintings and seventeenth-century methods of restoring and conserving paintings / by Ulrike Kern -- Caring for the King's pictures: artists and restorers in the Spanish royal collection, 1576-1814 / by Zahira Véliz Bomford and Ángel Aterido -- Public controversies in eighteenth-century painting restoration: the history of the transfer technique in France / by Ann Massing -- Pietro Edwards: the restorer as 'philosophe' / by Elizabeth Darrow -- Mary Merrifield's quest: a new methodology for technical art history / by Zahira Véliz Bomford -- Sir Charles Eastlake and conservation at the National Gallery, London / by Susanna Avery-Quash -- From Guizzardi to Cavenaghi: nineteenth-century Italian conservators / by Giogio Bonsanti -- Hopman and De Wild: the historical importance of two Dutch families of restorers / by Esther Van Duijn and Mereille Te Marvelde -- The restorations of Rembrandt's 'Night watch' / by Esther Van Duijn and Jan Piet Filedt Kok -- Helmut Ruhemann: paintings restorer in Berlin and London / by Morewenna Blewett -- Jan Cornelis Traas: paintings restorer of the Van Gogh family collection / by Ella Hendriks -- The history of painting conservation at the Yale University Art Gallery / by Mark Aronson, Ian McClure and Irma Passeri -- Twentieth-century Italian conservators and conservation theory / by Marco Ciatti -- Scientific examination of works of art in museums and galleries / by Jo Kirby -- Art history, science and practice: the training of paintings conservators in the twentieth century / by Joyce Hill Stoner -- Accommodating change: twentieth-century American artists and conservators / by Bradford A. Epley.
Subject Terms:
Art -- Conservation and restoration. | restoration (process)