WOVEN TAPESTRY: GUIDELINES FOR CONSERVATION

The International Handbooks of Museum Studies make up a multi-volume reference work that offers scholars, students, and museum professionals a state-of-the-art survey of the burgeoning field of museum studies. Featuring original essays by an international ...

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"La villa romana de La Olmeda se construyó en el siglo IV en lo que hoy es el Municipio palentino de Pedrosa de la Vega, sufrió la ruina de sus muros dos siglos después tras ...

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Acknowledged as one of the most important sets of early English tapestries, the Four Seasons set at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, raise many scholarly questions surrounding the design, production and uses of woven tapestry in sixteenth ...

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The European Textile Forum was founded as an annual meeting for academics, craftspeople, re-enactors and enthusiasts to share their experiences and compare notes. The conference takes place over a week, which not only allows time ...

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Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both within and beyond the museum. They separate objects from their contexts, group them with other ...

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This book, like the authors' previous volume on American painting materials and techniques from the colonial period to 1860, is the first overview of an important but largely unknown aspect of American art from 1860 ...

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Behind each archaeological shipwreck recovery lies a team of highly skilled specialists: divers, archaeologists, engineers, scientists, conservators, curators, historians, designers etc. While each boat found presents a unique combination of problems to be overcome, the ...

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This volume contains papers from The World of Iron Conference which took place at The Natural History Museum, London in 2009. Through a combination of thematic and regional sessions, the scope of the conference allowed ...

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The conservation profession has its roots in the intellectual movements of the first half of the 19th century, following the Enlightenment. Scholarly study of objects made available by important archeological excavations and discoveries gave birth ...

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The debate about environmental standards for museum collections has by no means been resolved. Climate change, ever increasing energy bills, the complexity of air-conditioning systems, the feasibility of alternative climate control strategies and the real ...

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The papers in this volume were presented as papers or posters at the ninth meeting dedicated to the use of lasers in the conservation of artworks (LACONA), hosted by the British Museum and University College, ...

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Each civilization devised its own solution for manufacturing the color blue. The names of the different pigments often reflect this geographic diversity: from Egyptian blue to copper phthalocyanine, ranging through Maya and Han blues, smalt, ...

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This is the fifth volume to appear in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural ...

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In a society where split-second decisions about the value of things are grounded on how they look, museum visitors are often drawn to visually striking or iconic objects. This book investigates the question of the ...

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Este libro constituye un rico y sugestivo análisis sobre los intrincados mecanismos que nutren el cuerpo del coleccionismo de arte hispánico, entre los que cabe destacar los efectos de las desamortizaciones, el denso entramado de ...

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This fourth volume in the Readings in Conservation series aims to promote critical thinking about the concepts and practices of textile conservation and to encourage engagement with new issues. Recognizing conservation as a dynamic social ...

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The papers in this volume constitute a substantial body of work that provides a wide-ranging overview of current research on the technology and practice of old master paintings, covering some 700 years of European painting, ...

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IPCI-Canada in association with Archetype, has 140 articles, 1200 pages, and over 1200 illustrations and will be an invaluable resource for both conservators and craftspeople. The outcome of a rigorous selection process by an editorial ...

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