Studying and Conserving Paintings

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Book cover: Studying and Conserving Paintings

Extent: 240 pages

Publisher: Archetype Publications Ltd 

Subjects: Art & Art History, Book History, Conservation, & Museum Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Out of print)

(February 2006)

ISBN: 9781904982067

9.25 x 11.5 inches

Price: $75.00

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This is the first volume of Occasional Papers on the Samuel H.
Kress Collection and is published in memory of Mario Modestini who died in 2006.
The book marks the tenth anniversary of the advanced training in Old Masters
conservation sponsored by the Kress Foundation at the Conservation Center of the
Institute of Fine Arts of New York University.


This is the first volume of Occasional Papers on the Samuel H. Kress Collection and is published in the memory of Mario Modestini who died on January 28, 2006 in New York. The book marks the tenth anniversary of the advanced training in Old Masters conservation sponsored by the Kress Foundation at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. The first part of the book is an overview of historic approaches to the conservation of European paintings and the conservation history of the Kress collection of paintings (which was formed between 1929 and 1961). The second part gives the results of scientific and humanistic research gained in the process of conserving specific Italian and Dutch Old Masters. Published in association with the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Overview

The Samuel H. Kress Collection: conservation and context

Marilyn Perry

 

The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation at the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Margaret Holben Ellis

Introduction to the volume

Michele Marincola

Acknowledgements

Michele Marincola

Historical papers

 

Philosophies and tastes in nineteenth-century paintings conservation

Wendy Partridge

Stephen Pichetto, Conservator of the Kress Collection 1927-1949

Ann Hoenigswald

Mario Modestini, Conservator of the Kress Collection 1949-1961

Dianne Dwyer Modestini with Mario Modestini

 

Technical studies and treatment

A new leaf: recent technical discoveries in the Goodhart Ducciesque Master's Madonna and Child with Four Saints

Jennifer Sherman

Botticelli's Nativity

Charles R. Mack

The Re-use of a Desco da Parto

Mika Okawa and Dianne Dwyer Modestini

The Triumphs of Petrarch: an analysis of a Renaissance decorative cycle

Wendy Partridge

A portable triptych in El Paso

Dianne Dwyer Modestini

Guidoccio Cozzarelli's Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Dianne Dwyer Modestini

School of Pietro Perugino, Saint Sebastian

Annette Rupprecht and Sheri Francis Shaneyfelt

The Master of the Manchester Madonna: restoration, technique, and a context for attribution

Molly March

Portrait of a Lady and techniques in the late paintings of Nicolaes Maes

Laurent Sozzani with Christopher McGlinchey

View of the Molo: a Canaletto attribution reinstated

Elise Effmann

Canaletto paints the Molo from the Ponte della Paglia

Katharine Baetjer

View of the Grand Canal with Dogana and Guardi studio practices

Helen Spande

Appendices and index

Appendix I: Kress Collection paintings treated in the Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Appendix II: the distribution of the Kress Collection

Index

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"In her introduction, Marilyn Perry describes one of the Kress Foundation's goals as bringing a fuller understanding of the original place and purpose for which art of previous centuries was created. This volume is an excellent contribution to that effort." Studies in Conservation 56 (2011) 77-79

In her introduction, Marilyn Perry describes one of the Kress Foundation's goals as bringing a fuller understanding of the original place and purpose for which art of previous centuries was created. This volume is an excellent contribution to that effort.