At times controversial and uncompromising, always intellectually honest, Alessandro Conti's book is - astonishingly - the only attempt to comprehensively chart

This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and wr

This book reveals an interesting and detailed account of the materials and methods used, the interaction between restorer, curator and collector and different p

"This volume will be of interest to teachers and students of conservation and art history, as well as to practicing conservators and museum curators, profession

The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti’s Storia del Restauro have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restorati