"Contributors discuss current research, new findings, specific problems, innovations, methods, and materials regarding the conservation of tapestries and embroideries."
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Lucy Dillon
Notes
Gift of Lucy Dillon, February 2024.
Lexicon
Search Terms
conference proceedings, ecclesiastical embroidery--conservation and restoration, tapestry--conservation and restoration
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Getty Conservation Institute
Publisher
Getty Conservation Institute
Place Published
City
Los Angeles, CA
Date Published
1989
ISBN
0892361549, 9780892361540
LCCN
89002058
Notes
Length: 117
General Notes
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Contents
Note
Of the discussions -- The conservation of embroideries at the Institut royal du patrimoine artistique -- The restoration of the Antependium of the Musee Paul Dupuy in Toulouse -- The Burgundian vestments -- Three embroidered pilaster panels from the Church of San Pietroat Broni -- Restoration of a seventeenth-century Chasuble at the Musee historique des tissus in Lyons -- The restoration of a twelfth-century Liturgical Sandal at the Musee historique des tissus in Lyons -- Second sight : further investigation into the construction of ecclesiastical embroideries and tapestries -- Conservation maintenance of tapestries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987 -- Tapestries : conservation and original design -- Conservation of a Fifteenth-century tapestry from Franconia -- The tapestries of the Sala dei Duecento in the Palazzo Vecchio -- Gluttony and avarice : two different approaches -- Two case histories : a seventeenth-century Antwerp tapestry and an eighteenth-century English Soho tapestry -- The conservation/restoration of the sixteenth-century tapestry, The gathering of the Manna -- The treatment of two sixteenth-century tapestries at the Institut royal du patrimoine artistique.
