The Renaissance restored : paintings conservation and the birth of modern art history in nineteenth-century Europe
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The Renaissance restored : paintings conservation and the birth of modern art history in nineteenth-century Europe
Getty Conservation Institute, c2021
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2017, under the title: What Burckhardt saw : restoration and the invention of the Renaissance, ca.1840-1904
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 have received less scrutiny-until now.
This book charts the intersections between art history and conservation in the treatment of Italian Renaissance paintings in nineteenth-century Europe. Initial chapters discuss the restoration of works by Giotto and Titian, framed by the contemporary scholarship of art historians such as Jacob Burckhardt, G. B. Cavalcaselle, and Joseph Crowe that was redefining the earlier age. Subsequent chapters recount how paintings conservation was integrated into museum settings. The narrative uses period texts, unpublished archival materials, and historical photographs in probing how paintings looked at a time when scholars were writing the foundational texts of art history, and how, simultaneously, contemporary restorers were negotiating the appearances of these works. The book proposes a model for a new conservation history, object focused yet enriched by consideration of a wider cultural horizon.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Finding Giotto in Florence
Chapter 2: Titian and the Weight of Tradition
Chapter 3: Charles Eastlake Directs Conservation
Chapter 4: Bode, Hauser, and the Renaissance Museum
Conclusion: Restoration and the Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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