Peintures romaines antiques, restauration et falsification
The famous collector, excavator and antiquary, Marchese Campana, gathered a huge collection of antiquities, among which fifty fragments of ancient wall painting. Those fragments were modified by the conservators working for Campana. These changes are studied in the present article. It appears that t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association CeROArt
2013-02-01
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| Series: | CeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ceroart/2940 |
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| Summary: | The famous collector, excavator and antiquary, Marchese Campana, gathered a huge collection of antiquities, among which fifty fragments of ancient wall painting. Those fragments were modified by the conservators working for Campana. These changes are studied in the present article. It appears that the same choices were made when restoring vases, gems or paintings: conservators prefered to alter the fragments in order to make a new work of art, fruit of their imagination, rather than trying to keep as close as they could to the original. |
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| ISSN: | 1784-5092 |