The art of conservation / edited by Jane Martineau and David Bomford.

London : The Burlington Press, 2024.

504 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), photographs ; 26 cm

Includes 17 essays originally published in Burlington Magazine 2016-2022.

The conservation history of the Ghent Altarpiece / Hélène Dubois -- Theodore de Mayerne, the King's black paintings and seventeenth-century methods of restoring and conserving paintings / Ulrike Kern -- Caring for the King's pictures: artists and restorers in the Spanish royal collection, 1576-1814 / Zahira Véliz Bomford and Ángel Aterido -- Public controversies in eighteenth-century painting restoration: the history of the transfer technique in France / Ann Massing -- Pietro Edwards: the restorer as 'philosophe' / Elizabeth Darrow -- Mary Merrifield's quest: a new methodology for technical art history / Zahira Véliz Bomford -- Sir Charles Eastlake and conservation at the National Gallery, London / Susanna Avery-Quash -- From Guizzardi to Cavenaghi: nineteenth-century Italian conservators / Giorgio Bonsanti -- Hopman and De Wild: the historical importance of two Dutch families of restorers / Esther Van Duijn and Mireille Te Marvelde -- The restorations of Rembrandt's 'Night watch' / Esther Van Duijn and Jan Piet Filedt Kok -- Helmut Ruhemann: paintings restorer in Berlin and London / Morwenna Blewett -- Jan Cornelis Traas: paintings restorer of the Van Gogh family collection / Ella Hendriks -- The history of painting conservation at the Yale University Art Gallery / Mark Aronson, Ian McClure and Irma Passeri -- Twentieth-cenutry Italian conservators and conservation theory / Marco Ciatti -- Scientific examination of works of art in museums and galleries / Jo Kirby -- Art history, science and practice: the training of paintings conservators in the twentieth century / Joyce Hill Stoner -- Accomodating change: twentieth-century American artists and conservators / Bradford A. Epley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.