The Renaissance Restored: Paintings Conservation and the Birth of Modern Art History in Nineteenth-Century Europe

by Matthew Hayes

This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe.

Repairing works of art and writing about them--the practices that became art conservation and art history--share a common ancestry. By the nineteenth century the two fields had become inseparably linked. While the art historical scholarship of this period has been widely studied, its restoration practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160606696X
• ISBN13: 9781606066966
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"