The Renaissance restored : paintings conservation and the birth of modern art history in nineteenth-century Europe

Title:

What Burckhardt saw

Paintings conservation and the birth of modern art history in nineteenth-century Europe

Author:

Hayes, Matthew, 1977- author.

ISBN:

9781606066966

Personal Author:

Hayes, Matthew, 1977- author.

Uniform Title:

What Burckhardt saw

Physical Description:

ix, 198 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm

General Note:

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.

Contents:

Shared histories -- Finding Giotto in Florence -- Titian and the weight of tradition -- Charles Eastlake directs conservation -- Bode, Hauser, and the Renaissance museum -- Restoration and the Renaissance in the nineteenth century.

Abstract:

"This volume charts the intersections between art history and conservation in the treatment of Italian Renaissance paintings in nineteenth-century Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Painting, Renaissance -- Conservation and restoration -- History -- 19th century.

Painting, Italian -- Conservation and restoration -- History -- 19th century.

Painting -- Conservation and restoration -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.

Museum conservation methods -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.

Art -- Historiography -- History -- 19th century.

Art restorers -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.

Art museums -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.

Added Corporate Author:

Getty Conservation Institute,

Portion Title:

Paintings conservation and the birth of modern art history in nineteenth-century Europe