A history of the restoration and conservation of works of art
By: Alessandro Conti ; translated by Helen Glanville.
Contributors: State University College at Buffalo. Dept. of Art Conservation
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780750669535
Subjects: Art -- Conservation and restoration -- History.
Other titles: Art Conservation Department Library
Work titles: Storia del restauro e della conservazione dalle opere d'arte.
Description: Charts the practices and underlying philosophies of conservation and "restored" works of art from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century.
Notes: Art Conservation Department Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: Towards restoration; title: Conservation of works of art in the sixteenth century; title: Some local traditions in Italy; title: Gallery pictures; title: Eighteenth-century restorations in Italy and France; title: Venice and Pietro Edwards; title: From the eighteenth to the nineteenth century; title: Restoration: from the academies to Romanticism; title: Restoration in Italy after the unification.