9781898519065

Book Description: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 1995. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Fair - Good. First. 11½" × 8". Pp 64 There is bashing/creasing affecting the top corners of both the covers and the pages: the top corner of the back cover is particularly affected; the creasing of the top corners of the pages is particularly noticeable up to and including page 22; some marks on the top corner of the inside of the front cover, and of page 8. Stain as of water on the top edge of both sides of the first preliminary page (blank); it extends for approximately three inches along the top edge, and about one and a half inches down the fore edge; at its deepest, it measures about half an inch. Some scuffing, and a few little marks, on the covers. Solidly bound; text and illustrations clean and unmarked. "Over the past four years a group of important seventeenth century paintings by Rubens, Cuyp, Murillo and other artists in the collection of Dulwich Picture Gallery have been conserved, with the generous support of the Getty Grant Program. This catalogue outlines the problems faced by the conservators in dealing with the various works, and summarises the solutions found. It includes brief essays by two leading authorities in the field, David Bomford and Herbert Lank. While much of the material is technical, the text will offer much to all those interested in both the past and the future of works of art." (From the back cover) From the Contents: Conservation at Dulwich Picture Gallery 1811-1995 (Giles Waterfield) * Perceptions of Picture Conservation (David Bomford) * Limits of Picture Restoration (Herbert Lank) The paintings that are discussed are (pages 26-60): PAOLO VERONESE: St Jerome and a Donor. PETER PAUL RUBENS: Venus, Mars and Cupid * Venus Mourning Adonis. DAVID TENIERS the YOUNGER: Peasants Conversing * A Castle and its Proprietors. BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO: The Madonna of the Rosary. AELBERT CUYP: View on a Plain * Herdsmen with Cows * A Road near a River. NICOLAES BERCHEM: A Farrier and Peasants near Roman Ruins. ABRAHAM STORCK: An English Yacht saluting a Dutch Man-of-War in the Port of Rotterdam. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH: Mrs Elizabeth Moody and her two Sons. Glossary. Bookseller Inventory # 002606

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