Restoration as Fabrication of Origins A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art

• Other Authors: de Riedmatten, Henri (Editor), Gaffo, Fabio (Editor), Jaccard, Mathilde (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
• Subjects: Theory of art; Conservation, restoration & care of artworks; Renaissance art; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Painting & paintings; Sculpture; Art techniques & principles; Renaissance Italy; reception of Antiquity; restoration art; 15th and 16th centuries; Rome; Florence; Raphael; Veronese Raffaello; Maffei Galleria dei Mesi; art and politics
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

This publication aims to clarify the relationships between material restoration and politics in Italian Renaissance art by focusing on the question of origin as a foothold for political, patrimonial, and cultural identity. Rather than reinstating the objects' initial forms and meanings, restoration practices implied remodeling them according to new identity needs and thus transforming their material and aesthetic reality.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (190 p.)

ISBN

9783111072739
9783111072272

Access

Open Access