'Tales of the unexpected' : in paintings conservation / edited by Mary Kempski, Jo Kirby, Victoria Leanse, and Kristina Mandy.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Kempski, Mary, editor.

Kirby, Jo, editor.

Leanse, Victoria, editor.

Mandy, Kristina, editor.

Wallace Collection (London, England), host institution.

British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers.

Conference Name:

'Tales of the Unexpected' in Conservation (Conference) (2020 : London, England), creator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Conservation and restoration--Congresses.

Painting.

Painting--Conservation and restoration.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 137 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Archetype Publications in association with the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers, BAPCR, 2020.

Summary:

Conservators' prolonged proximity to paintings makes them ideally placed to notice anything unusual or surprising which might arise during examination or treatment. Ensuing investigations, often aided by technical analysis, include the recent increasingly widespread use of macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) scanning which has led to a raft of new discoveries. 00The papers in this volume, presented at the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers? conference ?Tales of the Unexpected? in Conservation', look at the unexpected from a variety of periods and places of origin, and from a range of perspectives: practical, technical, historical and ethical.

Contents:

Introduction / Hayley Tomlinson

Tudor portraits ofthe Le Strange family of Hunstanton: Sir Thomas Le Strange (1493/4-1545)/ Emma Boyce Gore

Shedding the centuries: the rediscovery of an early sixteenth-cetury banco / Molly Hughes-Hallett

Intergration of macro X-ray fluorescence scanning and reflectance hyperspectral imaging into research and conservation activities at the National Gallery, London / Marta Melchiorre Di Crescenzo, Catherine Higgitt, Rachel Billinge and Marika Spring

Discovering Beuckelaer? / Alice Tate-Harte and Rachel Turnbull

Cracking the Dutch painter Jan van der Heyden's 'art secret' / Jae Youn Chung, Mary Kempski and David Peggie

When is a landscape not a landscape? When it's a portrait! / Miranda Brain and Jon Old

Sometimes the unexpected is as good as gold: discovery of gilded elements in Tiepolo's Bacchus and Ariadne / Sarah G. Murray and Barbara H. Berrie

Revealing secrets of 'Three Figures Dressed for a Masquerade' attributed to Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain / Joanna Strombek

Turner's unknown portraits / Susan Breen, Joyce Townsend and Ian Warrell

An unexpected product of the George Dawe painting factory / Rosanna de Sancha

Examing Édouard Manet's 'Le Déjeunersur l'herbe' from the Courtauld Gallery using spectral imaging techniques / Silvia Rita Amato, Maureen Cross, Aviva Burnstock, Koen Janssens, Joris Dik, Laura Cartechini, Anne Michelin and Aurélie Tournié

Conception, idiosyncrasy and immateriality in the London paintings of Matthijs Maris (1839-1917): challenges in interpretation and conversation / Laura Raven and Erma Hermens

A brief comparative study between some of Tate's collection of Léger paintings / Francesca Secchi

What lies beneath: technical discoveries, intention and practice in the early work of Mark Gertler / Aviva Burnstock and Sarah MacDougall.

Notes:

Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781909492745

1909492744

OCLC:

1197812674