| Preface | | vii | |
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| Introductory essay: ``Relativity and restoration'' | | ix | |
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| Notes from the translator | | xxvi | |
| Acknowledgements | | xxvii | |
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| Some notes on its ancient origins |
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| Gothic polyptychs, and frames ``in the Antique style'' |
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| Adaptations and renovations at the turn of the sixteenth century |
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| The restoration of frescos |
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| Conservation of works of art in the sixteenth century |
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| The restoration of ancient statues |
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| Giorgio Vasari: works of art and the passage of time |
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| Events involving works of art in the sixteenth century |
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| Catholic reform and the Counter-Reformation |
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| Some local traditions in Italy |
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| Bologna and Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Naples and Bernardo De Dominici |
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| Reductions in size and enlargements |
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| The restoration of Antique sculpture |
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| Pictorial restorations: Carlo Maratta |
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| Controversies over Carlo Maratta |
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| Eighteenth-century restorations in Italy and France |
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| The origins of the transfer of frescos |
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| The earliest transfers from panel |
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| Polemics surrounding Robert Picault |
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| Experiments in the physics and chemistry of painting |
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| Venice and Pietro Edwards |
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| The direction of Pietro Edwards |
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| The laboratory at Santi Giovanni e Paolo |
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| Considerations on the restoration of paintings |
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| From the eighteenth to the nineteenth century |
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| The legacy of the eighteenth century |
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| Antique statues and panel paintings by the Early Masters |
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| Restorations in the Musee Central des Arts |
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| Napoleonic requisitioning |
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| The world of the ``estrattisti'' |
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| Restoration: from the Academies to Romanticism |
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| Restoration and the Papacy |
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| Restorations in Tuscany: from academy to purism |
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| Aesthetic restoration: Molteni and Secco-Suardo |
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| Ulisse Forni, Gaetano Bianchi and restoration in Florence |
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| Restoration in Italy after the Unification |
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| Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle and restoration as conservation |
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| Guglielmo Botti and Cavalcaselle's restorers |
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| Science and restoration: experiments with the Pettenkofer method |
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| Mosaics and polychromy in monuments of the Middle Ages |
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| The years of Adolfo Venturi and Luigi Cantalamessa |
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| Final essay: ``A serene vision of the relationship between material and image'' |
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| Index of place names and works |
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| Glossary of technical terms |
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| Terminology used to describe the materials and techniques of paintings |
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| Perception and optical effects |
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| Deterioration, conservation and restoration terminology |
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| Structural conservation: wall and easel paintings |
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