Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Institute of Fine Arts, 2017, under the title: What Burckhardt saw: restoration and the invention of the Renaissance, c.1840-1904. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Shared histories -- Finding Giotto in Florence -- Titian and the weight of tradition -- Charles Eastlake as director of conservation -- Bode, Hauser, and the Renaissance museum -- Restoration and the Renaissance in the nineteenth century.
Summary:
"This volume charts the intersections between art history and art conservation in the treatment of Italian Renaissance paintings in nineteenth-century Europe. Initial chapters discuss the restoration of works by Giotto and Titian, framed by the contemporary scholarship of art historians such as Jacob Burckhardt, G. B. Cavalcaselle, and Joseph Crowe; later chapters recount how paintings conservation was integrated into institutional settings at the National Gallery in London under Charles Eastlake and at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin under Wilhelm Bode. Using period texts, unpublished archival materials, and historical photographs, the book proposes a new approach to conservation history, object-focused yet enriched by consideration of a wider cultural context"-- Back cover.
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