Conservation, Restoration & Care of Artworks

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the p...

Anyone writing about a work of art needs to establish at the outset how much it has changed since it was first made. This simple, informative and p...

La Gara is an 18th-century country estate in Jussy, a village near Geneva, Switzerland. The buildings have been carefully restored by Swiss archite...

The Monochrome of the Sala delle Asse is a portion of wall decoration left at the drawing stage and represents the roots of one of the sixteen mulb...

This lavishly illustrated book records the high profile restoration of Rembrandt van Rijns 17th century masterpiece, The Night Watch, one of the wo...

This is a thorough investigation of the material and philosophical aspects of conserving contemporary art. Since the advent of the avant-garde in t...

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors ann...

Milton H. Greene (1922-1985), famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Marilyn Monroe on a ...

What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis ur...

Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 196...

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...

New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer' Economist Wa...

Discover the secrets, mysteries, hidden meanings and stories behind famous works of art. A book full of surprises, discoveries, forgotten treasures...

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world t...