Issues in the Conservation of Paintings, hardcover Villa whose canvases established the grand

whose canvases established the grand tradition of portraiture both in England and on the Continent

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Samuel Wittwer is curator of the ceramics collections at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation and of the archives of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory

and his taste ran toward the idiosyncratic—images that surprised him chiefly because he had never seen them before

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Issues in the Conservation of Paintings, hardcover Villa whose canvases established the grandEdited by David Bomford and Mark Leonard This volume on paintings conservation includes more than seventy texts ranging from the fifteenth century to the present day. Some are classic and highly influential writings; others, although little known when first published, in retrospect reflect important themes and issues in the history of the field. Many appear here in English for the first time, including translations of D. Vicente Polero y Toledo's 1855