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- Title
The Making of Conservation Science: Report on the Brill-Nuncius Seminar on the Material and Visual History of Science, organized by Sven Dupré (Utrecht University/University of Amsterdam) and Esther van Duijn (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), 29–30 April 2021
- Authors
Žakula, Tijana
- Abstract
On 9 October 1947, the National Gallery in London opened the Exhibition of Cleaned Pictures. Some seventy masterpieces that had undergone various treatments since 1936 were brought together and exhibited in this groundbreaking show. Much criticized, but also praised by many, the exhibition sparked the so-called "cleaning controversy." It goes without saying that both the exhibition as well as the ensuing controversy impacted generations of scholars of all stripes. So much so that the exhibition was mentioned in virtually all the lectures that were delivered during the Brill Nuncius seminar held on 29–30 April 2021, which focused on the formation of conservation science in the post-World War II period, from the 1940s through the 1970s.
- Subjects
POST-World War II Period; UTRECHT University; UNIVERSITY of Amsterdam; NATIONAL Gallery (Great Britain); SCIENCE journalism; HISTORY of science; SEMINARS
- Publication
Museum Worlds, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 1, p131
- ISSN
2049-6729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/armw.2021.090111