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Creating + conserving

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The conservator's eye
The conservator's eye: Marble statue of a wounded warrior
The conservator's eye: Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Julian
The conservator’s eye: a stained glass Adoration of the Magi
The conservator’s eye: Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
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The conservator’s eye: Anselm Kiefer, Bohemia Lies by the Sea
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Tempera paint
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Making Purple: The Science of Art
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Drawing with Charcoal: Historical Techniques of 19th-Century France
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Before photography (1 of 12)
The Daguerreotype (2 of 12)
Talbot's Processes (3 of 12)
The Cyanotype (4 of 12)
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Conserving the Emperor's Carpet
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Van Dyck's Self-portrait: The Frame and its Conservation
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How to Examine a Work on Paper
Wrapping Paper Objects for Hand Transport
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Conservation Notes: Tom Thomson's The West Wind
Finding the Lost Crucifix in a Perugino Panel Painting
Finding the Original Context of Rosselli's Kneeling Angel
Examining a Panel Painting
IMA Conservation: Cleaning a Painting
Inpainting a Van Dyck
IMA Conservation: Pigment Analysis with XRF Spectrometry
What X-Rays of a Vivarini Reveal About Its Past
Examining a Veronese with XRF Spectrometry
Sebastiano Mainardi: The Science of Art Installation, Behind the Scenes
Sculpture + installation
Lab Tour: Objects and Variable Art
Preserving Art: Tara Donovan's Untitled (Plastic Cups)
Tara Donovan's Untitled (Mylar)
Artist Max Dean on the conservation of As Yet Untitled
Talking Chaos with Roland Wetzel
A Conversation with Robert Irwin on Light and Space III
IMA Conservation: The Lightbulbs in Light and Space III
Evidence of Lost Wax Casting
Textiles
IMA Conservation: Preparing a Mola Garment for Display
IMA Conservation: Preparing Mola Textiles for Display
Frames
Examining a 17th-century frame
Architecture
The Making of the Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial
Modern Architecture as Heritage
Talks + symposia
Innovative Approaches to Conservation
Conservation Data and Digital Asset Management
Moving Responsibilities: The Care of Performance-Based Sculpture
The Invention of Glory: A Symposium
The Plus/Minus Dilemma: The Way Forward in Environmental Guidelines

Conservation Data and Digital Asset Management

by MCN

Video from the 2011 MCN conference.

Cite this page as: MCN, "Conservation Data and Digital Asset Management," in Smarthistory, May 9, 2017, accessed July 10, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/conservation-data-and-digital-asset-management/.

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