TY - BOOK ID - 4895637 TI - The restoration of paintings in Paris, 1750-1815 : practice, discourse, materiality PY - 2017 SN - 9781606065167 1606065165 PB - Los Angeles, Calif. The Getty Conservation Institute DB - UniCat KW - Painting KW - Peinture KW - Conservation and restoration KW - History KW - Conservation et restauration KW - Histoire KW - Conservation. Restoration KW - easel paintings [paintings by form] KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Paris KW - restoration [process] KW - Painting - Conservation and restoration - France - Paris - History - 18th century KW - Painting - Conservation and restoration - France - Paris - History - 19th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4895637 AB - The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti s "Storia del Restauro" have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restoration in France in the second half of the eighteenth century. A number of technical treatises and biographies of restorers have offered insight into restoration practice. "The Restoration of Paintings in Paris, 1750 1815, " however, is the first book to situate this work within the broader historical and philosophical contexts of the time. Drawing on previously unpublished primary material from archives in Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Venice, Noemie Etienne combines art history with anthropology and sociology to survey the waning decades of the Ancien Regime and early post Revolution France. Initial chapters present the diversity of restoration practice, encompassing not only royal institutions and the Louvre museum but also private art dealers, artists, and craftsmen, and examine questions of trade secrecy and the changing role of the restorer. Following chapters address the influence of restoration and exhibition on the aesthetic understanding of paintings as material objects. The book closes with a discussion of the institutional and political uses of restoration, along with an art historical consideration of such key concepts as authenticity, originality, and stability of artworks, emphasizing the multilayered dimension of paintings by such important artists as Titian and Raphael. There is also a useful dictionary of the main restorers active in France between 1750 and 1815. " ER -