Conservation, Restoration & Care of Artworks

The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeolog...

This is a comprehensive book to serve as a guide to the most fascinating aspects of the conservation and restoration of paintings. It offers invalu...

Despite the central importance of connoisseurship in the rarefied world of art collecting, it occupies an uncomfortable position in modern scholars...

The catalogue of works, also known as the oeuvre catalogue or catalogue raisonné, is considered a fundamental reference work for museums, collector...

'Almost hypnotically perfect prose' Kate Sawyer'A thoughtful, tender and delicate consideration of life's choices' Huma Qureshi 'Ashby handles her ...

English edition Villa Silberblick where a mentally deranged Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life, was originally a middle-class h...

Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. The French cultural patrimony was...

This book focuses on the conservation and preservation of Persian architectural heritage, including the philosophy of conservation, practical exper...

Migration is in the news every day. Whether it be the plight of refugees fleeing Syria, or the outbreak of the Zika virus across Latin America, the...

Diversity in artistic research This book presents the results of the Octopus Programme, an innovative fellowship in the field of artistic researc...

From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassi...

From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassi...

This catalogue provides a spectacular overview of painting on the theme of football in European artistic modernism. Here, painting gets to the bott...

Der Beginn der germanistischen Editionstätigkeit im frühen 19. Jahrhundert ist wesentlich von Arbeiten zur älteren deutschen Literatur geprägt. Anh...

Hidden Treasures The Bas-Reliefs on the Kemp Town Estate illustrates, for the very first time, the 40 plaster bas reliefs, hitherto unidentified an...

This ground-breaking book explores the revolution thats transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwide...

Science and art are increasingly interconnected in the activities of the study and conservation of works of art. Science plays a key role in cultur...

The book deals with the issue of the approach to and treatment of Byzantine monuments during the first one hundred years of the Greek State (1833-1...

The art and science of audiovisual preservation and access has evolved at breakneck speed in the digital age. The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) i...

The contributions to this volume shed light on the emergence of important collections of drawings in Vienna and Central Europe, many of which form ...

The fourth volume of the chronological documentation of the MUSA, Museum Start Gallery Artotheks collection, is dedicated to the 1980s. This compre...

Facettenreich und vielstimmig reflektiert die Festschrift für Gabriela Krist, Restauratorin, Kunsthistorikerin und Vorständin des Instituts für Kon...

This is a fascinating re-examination of the importance and legacy of provenance in the history of art. This book goes beyond the narrow definition ...

In 2019 Yale University, with the support of the Getty Foundation, held an international conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from more ...

PRE-ORDER THE KING'S MESSENGER, A STORY OF TREACHERY, BETRAYAL AND LOVE, COMING AUGUST 2024. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wint...