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The restoration of paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 : practice, discourse, materiality
- Title
- The restoration of paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 : practice, discourse, materiality / Noémie Étienne ; translated from the French by Sharon Grevet.
- Author
- Étienne, Noémie
- Publication
- Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute, [2017]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xiv, 302 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Uniform Title
- Restauration des peintures à Paris, 1750-1815. English
- Alternative Title
- Restauration des peintures à Paris, 1750-1815.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: restoration and the public sphere -- Part I. An activity in search of definition: -- Chapter 1. The Paris milieux: -- Versatility and flexibility -- A networked practice -- Between the institutional and the private settings -- Chapter 2. Art, secret, or invention?: -- A public sphere of knowledge? -- Standards and reclassifications -- Intellectual property -- Chapter 3. The restorer's expertise: -- A "connoisseur-artist" -- Toward a definition at the museum -- Part II. Updating artworks: -- Chapter 4. The new life of the artwork: -- To smoke or to scour? -- Restoration as interpretation -- Faking the painting -- Chapter 5. Paintings Redefined: -- Window or mirror -- Supports/surfaces -- Chapter 6. Refabricating paintings: -- From divided work to fabricated painting -- From adjustable object to adjusted space -- Mural exodus: the paintings transported to the museum -- Part III. Displaying restored paintings: -- Chapter 7. Visibility and money: -- Commercial and private venues -- Seeing, believing, and judging -- Financial repercussions -- Chapter 8. A political practice: -- For the glory of the king -- After the revolution: the opening of the Louvre -- "From the rubble of triumph" -- Chapter 9. Fresh and French: -- Gazing upon the masterpieces of the arts -- The skilled hand of the French restorers -- The end of an empire.
- Call Number
- JQF 17-1647
- ISBN
- 9781606065167
- 1606065165
- LCCN
- 2016030232
- 12969533
- OCLC
- 954134254
- Author
- Étienne, Noémie, author.Étienne, Noémie, author.
- Title
- The restoration of paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 : practice, discourse, materiality / Noémie Étienne ; translated from the French by Sharon Grevet.
- Publisher
- Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1899
- Added Author
- Grevet, Sharon, translator.Getty Conservation Institute, issuing body.
- Translation Of:
- Translation of: Étienne, Noémie. Restauration des peintures à Paris. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012 9782753520592 (OCoLC)823578193
- Other Standard Identifier
- 12969533
- Research Call Number
- JQF 17-1647