Conservation Science and Art Series Vol.2

Opis

Conservation Science and Art Series Vol.2. .

Facture presents the latest conservation research on masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, spanning the early Renaissance through the present and encompassing a range of media.

Volume 2 examines great art of two very different eras?the Italian Renaissance and the 20th century?and puts in new contexts works such as Giotto?s Madonna and Child, bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin, watercolors by John Marin, early paintings by Andy Warhol, and Mark Rothko?s multiforms, which mark the birth of his abstraction.

Seven essays are illustrated with outstandingly detailed photography and share a common approach. They each begin with