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

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

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

Knossos

c. 8th millennium B.C.E.–5th century C.E.

Andrea Mantegna, St. James Led to his Execution

1447–58

Restoration versus conservation: the Palace at Knossos (Crete)

c. 8th millennium B.C.E.–5th century C.E.

The conservator’s eye: a stained glass Adoration of the Magi

1507 or earlier

The conservator’s eye: Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory

1891

The conservator’s eye: Marble statue of a wounded warrior

Greek original c. 460–450 B.C.E.; Roman copy c. 138–181 C.E.

Kasbah Taourirt: Conserving Earthen Heritage in Morocco

17th–late 19th century

Conserving the Emperor’s Carpet

c. 1650–1700

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