The Palace of Versailles have published some rather interesting mid-clean photographs of the conservation of Pierre Mignard's The family of the Grand Dauphin, Louis of France (1661-1711). This large-scale work, which was delivered in 1687, is the latest to be treated by conservators at the...
He divides his time between work as a practising artist, a freelance conservator and the renovation of a disused chapel/boathouse where he lives with two Bengal cats. In the 1970's and '80s Keith ran his own Private Press, producing limited edition books which he printed and illustrated and...
The image was found when art conservators took an X-ray of Van Gogh's 1885 "Head of a Peasant Woman" painting ahead of a forthcoming exhibition. They discovered the concealed image at the back of its canvas hidden by a sheet of cardboard. Experts say the revealed artwork is believed to...
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Frame conservation is a specialized field that requires a significant amount of knowledge about different types of materials. Conservators use materials like wood, metal, resin or plaster. Let’s look at each: Wood framesare the most popular due to their durability and high aesthetic value. There...
and frame using only acid-free materials, keep glass away from the surface of the artwork, and place in a low-humidity environment. Foxing can be treated by a paper conservator, although it is unlikely to be removed entirely by standard cleaning treatments. Also called foxed. Also see stain...
Some of the most compelling scenes in the film are also its most unassuming; these are the moments in which Holzhausen’s camera slips quietly into the museum’s storerooms and also into the workrooms and laboratories of its art conservators, and watches them at work. Their highly specialized...
complicates the experience of viewing and interpreting a work of art. The group then moved to explore Pollock’s materials and methods in a studio session with one of our painting conservators, considering how experimenting with materials and methods might enrich our understanding of the art work...
“What the general public may not realise is that before a single photograph is hung on a wall, the object and its related data is managed by teams of professional conservators, registrars, curators, mount-makers, and many others,” says Jim Ganz, senior curator of photographs at the Getty...
At Maison Hannon, the initial role of conservator Grégory Van Aelbrouck “wasn’t to restore the building, but to create a museum of the decorative arts”. He was, however, quickly, convinced to do both by a comprehensive archive that contained not only historic invoices about the constructio...