The eye's caress : looking, appreciation, and connoisseurship -- Original intent of the artist -- The emergence of modern conservation theory -- Historical perspective -- Restoration and anti-restoration -- Reintegration of losses -- Idea of patina -- The role of science and technology.
Miguel Angel Corzo, Director, The Getty Conservation Institute -- Nicholas Stanley Price, former Deputy Director, Training Program, The Conservation Institute -- The eye's caress: looking, appreciation, and connoisseurship / M. Kirby Talley, Jr. -- The lamp of memory, I / John Ruskin -- Aesthetics and history in the visual arts / Bernard Berenson -- Art / Clive Bell -- Looking at pictures / Kenneth Clark -- The history of art as a humanistic discipline / Erwin Panofsky -- The modern cult of monuments: its essence and its development / Alois Riegl -- Principles of art history / Heinrich Wölfflin -- Italian painters of the Renaissance / Bernard Berenson -- Conversations with Berenson / Umberto Morra -- Fundamental laws of sculpture / John Ruskin -- From light into paint / E.H. Gombrich -- Of Turnerian mystery: secondly, willful / John Ruskin -- Rudiments of connoisseurship / Bernard Berenson -- On art and connoisseurship / Max J. Friedländer -- Connoisseurship / John Pope-Hennessy -- The nature of Gothic / John Ruskin -- The original intent of the artist / M. Kirby Talley, Jr. -- Art in transition / Albert Albano -- Crimes against the Cubists / John Richardson -- The autonomy of restoration: ethical considerations in relation to artistic concepts / Ernst van de Wetering -- The emergence of modern conservation theory / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- That mighty sculptor, time / Marguerite Yourcenar -- Restoration from the perspective of the humanities / Paul Philippot -- Theory of restoration, I / Cesare Brandi -- The integration of the image: problems in the restoration of monuments / Giovanni Carbonara -- Knowing how to "question" the object before restoring it / Albert France-Lanord -- Introduction to archaeological conservation / Marie Berducou -- Historical perspective / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- Historic preservation: philosophy, criteria, guidelines, I / Paul Philippot -- Degradation, conservation, and restoration of works of art: historical overview / R.H. Marijnissen -- Further materials for a history of conservation / The surgery of memory: ancient sculpture and historical restorations / Orietta Rossi Pinelli -- Restoration and anti-restoration / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- Restoration / Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc -- Manifesto of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings / William Morris -- The lamp of memory, II / John Ruskin -- Reintegration of losses / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- On restorations / Max J. Friedländer -- The problem of the integration of Lacunae in the restoration of paintings / Albert Philippot and Paul Philippot -- Theory of restoration, II / Cesare Brandi -- Problems of presentation / Paolo Mora, Laura Mora, and Paul Philippot -- Theory of restoration and methodological unity / Umberto Baldini -- Historic preservation: philosophy criteria, guidelines, II / Paul Philippot -- The idea of patina / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- The idea of patina and the cleaning of paintings / Paul Philippot -- Theory of restoration, III / Cesare Brandi -- The cleaning of pictures in relation to patina, varnish, and glazes / Cesare Brandi -- A review of the history and practice of patination p./ Phoebe Dent Weil -- The surface of objects and museum style / Ernst van de Wetering --- The role of science and technology / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- Scientific research and the restoration of paintings / Paul Coremans -- The scientist's role in historic preservation with particular reference to stone conservation / Giorgio Torraca -- The science and art of conservation of cultural property / Giovanni Urbani --
|