The Renaissance Restored: Paintings Conservation and the Birth of Modern Art History in Nineteenth-Century Europe

This volume charts the intersections between art history and art conservation in the treatment of Italian Renaissance painting in nineteenth-century Europe. Initial chapters discuss the restoration of works by Giotto and Titian, framed by the contemporary scholarship of art historian such as Jacob Burckhardt, G. B. Cavalcaselle, and Joseph Crowe; later chapters recount how paintings conservation was integrated into institutional settings at the National Gallery in London under Charles Eastl...