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Conservation and restoration

Conservation: Preservation of works from destructive influences, natural decay, or waste. Restoration: Making changes to a work so it will closely resemble its original state or a specific historical state.

Basics Works of Art Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

Conserving Old Master Drawings

Conservation glossary of terms

Ancient Babylon: excavations, restorations and modern tourism

Conservation of paintings

Van Dyck’s Self-portrait: The Frame and its Conservation

Contemporary Art Conservation at Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum

Remaking a fourteenth-century triptych

A race against time: manuscripts and digital preservation

Conserving Korean lacquer

The Science of Van Gogh’s Bedrooms

Restoring Rothko

“Creative iconoclasm”: a tale of two monasteries

The Alchemy of Color and Chemical Change in Medieval Manuscripts

Science and Paper: Conserving a Drypoint by Michael Heizer

Works of Art

Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building

1899 and 1903–04

Conserving Cuzco School paintings

18th century

Conserving The Wolsey Angels

1524–29

Conserving Jacob van Walscapelle’s Flowers in a Glass Vase

1667

Conservation: The Nasrid plasterwork collection at the V&A

14th–15th century

Conservation: Cast of the Pórtico de la Gloria

Original: 1188; Cast: 1866

Conservation: Indian jama

c. 1855

Conservation: portrait miniatures

1520s

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