The Renaissance Restored: Paintings Conservation and the Birth of Modern Art History in Nineteenth-Century Europe

$65.00 at The Getty Museum.

Matthew Hayes 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…