The Conservation of Art: Comparative Issues in the Preservation of Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculpture

Molly Giblin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting, Manuscripts and Sculpture
Country: Ireland, England, Belgium, Germany and France
Period: 15th – 20th Century

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This dissertation aims to present and examine the issues facing conservation and measures they take in the effort to conserve our artistic culture. It will present and compare the conservation issues which are universal to manuscripts, paintings and sculpture. Using specific examples to highlight these common themes, projects will be set into the broader framework of conservation history, explaining how it has evolved. The central objective of this dissertation is to explore the importance of environment on an object’s condition, through the various interpretations of ‘environment’ such as climate. housing, or museum practices. It aims to achieve this objective by an assessment of recent projects and various methods, past and present, employed to attempt to preserve artistic culture.

Irish Georgian Society

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The Conservation of Art: Comparative Issues in the Preservation of Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculpture